Greg Wilken
Lead Product Engineer at The Daily Beast
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Wilken is a Lead Product Engineer with nine years of software experience and a background in professional photography and arts education, now based in Los Angeles. He has progressed from hands-on full‑stack development to engineering leadership across consumer media and lifestyle brands, most recently leading product engineering at The Daily Beast after roles at World of Good Brands and Leaf Group. Greg blends visual design sensibility from an MFA and BFA in photography with pragmatic product delivery, enabling teams to ship polished, user-focused experiences. His career reflects a rare mix of creative discipline and technical ownership—he started as a professional photographer and educator before transitioning into product engineering and management.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Fine and Studio Arts, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Fine and Studio Arts at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Photography at Otis College of Art and DesignRepublic of Kiribati - South Pacific Islands Nations, Republic of Kiribati - South Pacific Islands Nations at Fulbright Scholarship
Github Skills (20)
realtime10
multiple-monitors10
wireless10
monitors10
hardware10
nodejs10
mongodb10
javascript9
iot9
react9
nltk2
tuple2
python2
linguistics2
lexicon2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gwilken/shipwreck-explorer
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
gwilken/react-craigslist-scraper-grapher
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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