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 (51)
javascript10
testing10
ember-cli10
page-object10
vscode-extension10
ember-cli-addon10
qunit10
ember10
shopify9
design-tokens9
typescript9
sdk9
component-library9
figma-plugin9
javascript-framework9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jeradg/ember-cli-page-object
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:88 pushes, 11 branches, 1 comment in 1 month
ember-cliember-addonacceptance-testsemberjsember
jeradg/jeradg.github.io
Sep 2016 - Dec 2021
My website.
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
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