Greg Gates
Software Engineer at Row Zero
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Gates is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, performance-focused backends, and full-stack features at Amazon, AWS S3, and Tableau, and is now helping reinvent spreadsheets as "VP of pivot tables" at Row Zero. Trained as a philosopher with a PhD and a B.S. in mathematics, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with practical engineering chops across cloud services, performance engineering, and UI-facing data products. He has moved between individual contributor and managerial roles at scale, delivering backend reliability for S3 and performance improvements at Tableau. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and production-hardened experience, thriving on hard correctness problems in data-intensive apps.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S; B.A, mathematics; philosophy, B.S; B.A, mathematics; philosophy at Indiana University BloomingtonPh.D, philosophy, Ph.D, philosophy at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (46)
devise10
warden10
authentication10
rails10
ruby10
spree10
command-line-utility9
rust9
compiler8
ember-cli8
dataframe8
polars8
rust-lang7
javascript7
standard-library7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gregates/gregates.github.io
Feb 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 10 months
gregates/oauth2-implicit-flow
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 month
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