Griffin Schneider
Principal Engineer at Mable
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGriffin Schneider is a Principal Engineer based in Boston with 14 years of experience building mobile and backend systems across startups and large companies, including roles at PayPal, GasBuddy, and his current position at Mable. He brings deep language breadth—Java, Objective-C, Haskell, Scheme, Lua and JavaScript—and a systems-first mindset honed across Linux, macOS, Windows and mobile platforms. Griffin has a strong track record shipping consumer-facing mobile apps (including an Android title with 700k+ downloads) and designing polished developer tooling, evidenced by UI and semantic-highlighting contributions to a Magit-like VS Code extension. As an architect and hands-on leader, he blends product sensibility with low-level engineering, often improving developer and user experience through thoughtful UI and rendering work. A Northeastern BS in Computer Science and Mathematics graduate (3.8 GPA), he pairs rigorous technical foundations with practical mentorship and teaching experience.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, 3.8/4.0, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, 3.8/4.0 at Northeastern UniversityBrighton High School
Github Skills (9)
git10
vscode10
magit10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
version-control8
ui-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kahole/edamagit
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Magit for VSCode
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Griffin primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and overall functionality of the VS Code extension. They implemented a new configuration option for displaying buffers, demonstrating a clear understanding of the extension's internal workings. Further contributions involved adding semantic highlighting for ref names, adjusting the views, and improving the rendering of the Git information within the extension's views. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user experience and expanding the feature set of the extension.
hacklangsource-controlgitignorevscodevscode-extension
GriffinSchneider/DRYUI
Mar 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:83 commits, 44 PRs, 219 pushes in 4 years 2 months
objective-ccocoapodsapiosxtiny
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