Greg Slovacek
Caregiver at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Slovacek is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 14+ years building scalable product and platform infrastructure, most notably as a founding engineer and later Head of Workflow and Platform Engineering at Asana. He has shipped core APIs, integrations, and user-facing features—driving major launches like an automation system, desktop app, enterprise Search API, and a 3x API read performance improvement—while scaling engineering orgs to support rapid growth. Greg combines hands-on prototyping and ML product research with strong people leadership, hiring and mentoring engineering managers, creating interview training, and founding developer relations. After stepping away in 2021 to care for family, he’s refocusing on opportunities at the intersection of AI product innovation and safety, aiming to deliver useful ML features while minimizing downsides. Notably, his early work included building a live query/reactive framework precursor and authoring patents and infrastructure improvements that outlasted multiple product generations.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brown University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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49kreached
81answers
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Github Skills (42)
client-library10
api-client10
jsinterop10
asana10
python-client10
asana-api10
api10
browserify10
js-client10
javascript9
metadata9
browser9
java-client9
ruby-client9
sdk9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Asana/Chrome-Extension-Example
Feb 2012 - Sep 2016
Sample application illustrating use of the Asana API
Contributions:72 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 7 months
asanaapiasana-apisample-application
Asana/node-asana
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Official node.js and browser JS client for the Asana API v1
Contributions:25 releases, 164 commits, 44 PRs in 10 months
apijs-clientbrowserjsinteropasana
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