Hank Gay
Staff Engineer at Glue
Suwanee, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolHank Gay is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of full-stack experience building SaaS, bespoke client/server, and in-house tools, currently at RescueTime and consulting with Glue. He blends pragmatic backend expertise in Python and Ruby with front-end skills in HTML/CSS/JavaScript and strong SQL fluency to ship user-focused features that improve speed and delight. Hank has a track record of modernizing legacy codebases—demonstrated by significant Python 3 and refactoring contributions to the widely used Read the Docs project—while keeping APIs and search functionality robust. Comfortable across the stack and with DevOps practices, he excels in small-team environments where breadth and independence matter. A Georgia Tech computer engineering graduate with an economics minor, he pairs technical rigor with an eye for product impact. Notably, he prefers making users’ workflows measurably better rather than chasing flashy new tech.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering Economics (minor), B.S. Computer Engineering Economics (minor) at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (62)
caching10
git10
python10
django10
http10
internationalization10
loops10
java10
localization10
rest10
data-structures10
architecture9
testing9
postgresql9
svn9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
readthedocs/readthedocs.org
May 2017 - Jun 2017
The source code that powers readthedocs.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Hank primarily focused on modernizing the codebase, refactoring code, and ensuring compatibility with Python 3. The user made significant changes to multiple files, including those related to search functionality, API serializers, and database models. They also worked on updating the codebase with the `futurize` tool and addressing file pathing issues.
mkdocspythonpowerssphinxsphinx-doc
gthank/ruby_koans
Apr 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:140 commits in 2 months
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