Gunnar Gissel
Senior Software Developer at Remitly
Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGunnar Gissel is a senior software developer with 12 years of experience building reliable server-, client- and database-driven systems, currently delivering customer service and payments platforms in fintech at Remitly. He previously spent nearly a decade at NOAA designing resilient eLogbook and permit management applications for Alaska fisheries, including low-bandwidth fallbacks and a migration from Adobe Flex to JavaScript. Comfortable across the full stack, Gunnar has led efforts to split monolithic backends into smaller services and to automate build, test and deploy pipelines. His background as a patent examiner and a physics graduate lends him a methodical, evidence-driven approach to distilling complex problems into auditable solutions. Based on Bainbridge Island, he blends public-sector pragmatism with product-focused engineering at scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
mongodb8
building-blocks8
npm8
nodejs8
realtime7
javascript7
build-system7
react7
jenkins6
ant6
reactive-programming6
cross-browser6
rpc6
automation6
apache-flex6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
monknomo/If-Else-Block-Refactoring
May 2017 - May 2018
Refactoring business logic with nested if/else code blocks
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year
cppcode-blocksbusiness-logicrefactoringdata-structures
monknomo/CardWiki
Nov 2014 - May 2018
Contributions:78 commits, 60 pushes, 28 comments in 3 years 7 months
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