Jeff Whitmire
Engineering Manager at Galileo
Town of Webster, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Whitmire is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience and 18 years in senior and leadership roles across startups and large enterprises. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, mentoring teams, and shipping user-focused products, while actively exploring modern languages like Elixir, Rust, and Swift. His career includes principal engineering and management roles at Stitch Fix, PhishMe, and LivingSocial, and recent work as a founding member of Tropic’s Core Experience team where he helped establish a design system via LookBook and role-based authorization. Jeff blends deep backend and systems experience—from C++/Java enterprise systems to modern web stacks—with a pragmatic approach to hiring, product collaboration, and operational delivery. Based in Webster, NY, he seeks to make an impact beyond profit, pairing technical craft with mentorship and thoughtful product stewardship.
18 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Bob Jones UniversityMBA, MBA at Rochester Institute of TechnologyDiploma, Diploma at Hendersonville Christian SchoolUMBC
Github Skills (54)
parser8
feed7
parsing6
rss6
realm5
coverage5
expressions5
temporal5
browserstack5
magit4
swift4
elisp4
qunit3
emacs3
jasmine3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jwhitmire/tm-themes
Jan 2010 - Jul 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 4 years 6 months
jwhitmire/dotfiles
Sep 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:83 commits, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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