Jeff Whitmire
Founder 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
28 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 (38)
parser8
parsing6
rss6
payment-service6
payment5
qunit5
browserstack4
amazon4
coverage4
api4
realm4
continuous-integration4
jasmine4
aws3
elisp3
Programming languages (6)
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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