Greg Fenton
VP Of Technology at IDS - Integrated Dealer Systems
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGreg Fenton is a seasoned technology executive with 11+ years in senior leadership and a 25+ year track record turning complex enterprise requirements into market-ready software across on-premise, SaaS and cloud models. Currently VP of Technology at IDS and founder of Model Driven Thinking, he excels at aligning product, engineering and stakeholders to deliver reliable, measurable outcomes while raising engineering productivity and career growth. He has led large cloud migrations, platform modernizations and productized testing initiatives, and scaled offshore and DevOps practices to improve uptime and reduce implementation risk. A pragmatic systems thinker, Greg blends product strategy with hands-on delivery experience spanning front-end, back-end and middleware for web, mobile and desktop. He also contributes to notable open-source projects like react-native-paper by improving documentation and examples, underscoring his attention to developer experience. Based in Toronto, he is known for transparent metrics-driven leadership and for empowering teams to own quality and career progression.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) Intermediate-Senior, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) Intermediate-Senior at Western UniversityHonours Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science with Teaching Option, Honours Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science with Teaching Option at University of Waterloo
French
Stackoverflow
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226answers
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firebase
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google-cloud-firestore
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Github Skills (19)
react-native10
uikit10
documentation10
google-cloud-firestore9
material-design9
react9
firebase9
nodejs6
sql6
android6
expo6
java6
firebase-security6
firebase-authentication6
javascript6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
callstack/react-native-paper
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Material Design for React Native (Android & iOS)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on improving the documentation of the React Native Paper library. Their commits involved adding and updating documentation related to component properties like `ellipsizeMode`, fixing examples of the `Modal` component, and refining the example usage of the `RadioButton.Group` component. Furthermore, they ensured that the documentation examples matched the code and screenshots for the `Divider` component.
reactreact-native-androidreact-nativematerialios-android
gregfenton/i18next-node-firestore-backend
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 25 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
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