Gregory Schier
Indie Founder at Yaak API Client
100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolGregory Schier is an indie founder and full-stack software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building Yaak, an open-source, offline and git-friendly desktop API client. He brings practical product experience from Railway, where he shipped backend and developer-facing features, and notable open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Insomnia and nixpacks—adding Deno support, refining UI editors, and improving request/serialization handling. Based in rural British Columbia, he combines a systems-minded CS background from the University of Victoria with a hacker’s focus on developer ergonomics and reproducible, container-friendly workflows. Gregory is comfortable across the stack—CLI, desktop UI, and packaging—and tends to surface little user-experience wins that make tools feel polished and reliable.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Victoria
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Github Skills (28)
deno10
javascript10
wpgraphql10
uid10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
rust10
react10
buildpack10
api-client9
user-interface9
dockers9
ui-design9
interface-design9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
railwayapp/nixpacks
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
App source + Nix packages + Docker = Image
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 17 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gregory primarily contributed to the `nixpacks` project by adding and improving the Deno provider. They implemented the provider, including detection logic and a suggested start command. They also made improvements to the application file handling and path manipulation, and fixed integration tests to include the Deno functionality. Furthermore, the user made minor changes like formatting the code and suggesting a Docker run command change to the user.
docker-imagerustnixosnix-packagesdocker
gschier/insomnia-plugin-path-parameters
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Insomnia plugin to allow adding path parameters in Query tab
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
queryparametersinsomnia-pluginplugininsomnia
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