Greg Schechter
Staff Frontend Engineer at Metropolis Technologies
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Schechter is a Staff Frontend Engineer and engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience building performant, user-focused web products at companies from startups to Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Amazon. He specializes in front-end performance, video and media web technologies, and developer-facing platforms—having led HTML5 video at YouTube and driven Chrome integrations for Google Lens and generative search experiences. As a founder/CEO he also builds consumer-facing digital products, publishing a comprehensive digital field guide for North American reptiles and amphibians, revealing an unexpected blend of technical depth and natural-history entrepreneurship. Greg has repeatedly improved site speed and resource efficiency (e.g., dramatic load and asset-size reductions for Wheelhouse) while scaling teams and shipping product features used by millions. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs deep protocol and browser expertise with practical product instincts and a track record of evangelism and developer relations at global conferences.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (115)
confirm-dialog10
youtube-api10
dialog10
bootstrap-modal10
selenium-webdriver10
confirm10
nightwatch9
javascript9
jquery9
youtube9
recurly9
api9
testing9
bootstrap9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gregthebusker/fieldguideguruserver
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:48 PRs, 191 pushes, 95 branches in 1 year 8 months
ProjectBabbler/ebird-js
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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