Jerad Gallinger
Staff Platform Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJerad Gallinger is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Old Toronto with 13 years building scalable web platforms and APIs, currently shaping platform capabilities at Huntress. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and Node.js backends, modern JavaScript frontends (React, Ember, Angular), TDD and performance-driven refactors that reduce database load and improve search relevance. Past roles at Shopify, Precision Nutrition and RewardOps show a track record of shipping high-impact features for millions of users and leading full-stack teams through growth and migrations. He’s comfortable across the stack—designing APIs, benchmarking performance, improving test coverage, and pairing with junior engineers to raise team craft. Notably, he has driven internationalized asset management systems and maintained popular Ember tooling, reflecting both pragmatic product thinking and open-source engagement. With a background in philosophy and design studies, he brings a user-focused, systems-level perspective to complex engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree Philosophy at Dalhousie UniversityDesign courses, Design courses at George Brown College
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (67)
emberjs10
javascript10
page-object10
ember-cli-addon10
ember-addon10
addon10
sdk9
figma-plugin9
cli9
angular9
ember-cli9
ember9
component-library9
qunit9
javascript-framework9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jeradg/ohmyzsh
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
pythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-updatecapistrano
jeradg/.tmux
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years
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