Rich Glazerman
Software Engineer at Square
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRich Glazerman is a senior software engineer with over eight years of experience building and modernizing large-scale web applications, currently at Shopify in the Atlanta metro area. He led cross-team framework modernization efforts at Square, migrating critical merchant-facing pages from Ember to React and improving performance, security, and developer experience across 26 teams. His work spans full-stack engineering—front-end contributions to high-profile open-source Ember projects and deep involvement in build and data tooling like pnpm migrations and integration test fixes. Rich has a strong track record delivering product-impacting features (payments, gift cards, permission systems) and architecting foundational infrastructure that unlocked new revenue channels. He combines hands-on coding with engineering leadership, moving from senior engineer to senior staff while guiding long-running refactors and security initiatives. A Georgia Tech CS graduate, he pairs practical legacy modernization experience with active open-source contributions to prominent frameworks.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
javascript-framework10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
ember-data10
pnpm10
ember10
typescript-types10
dataframe10
testing10
data-loading9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
emberjs/data
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
WarpDrive is a lightweight data library for web apps — universal, typed, reactive, and ready to scale.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 17 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily focused on refactoring the codebase by converting existing code to use `pnpm` as the package manager. They updated build configurations and testing scripts to align with `pnpm`. Additionally, they modified various integration tests related to data handling, including those involving schema-arrays and schema-objects, as well as fixing type issues. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining and improving the project's build process and core data management capabilities.
rxjsfunctional-programmingjavascriptdata-librarydeclarative
emberjs/ember.js
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the Ember.js framework, focusing on improving component behavior and correcting errors. Their work included making a method public, adding a test case for two-way binding through a setter computed property. They also addressed lint issues, fixed a typo in a test, resolved a binding issue, and moved a computed property fix.
web-applicationsjavascript-frameworkjavascriptemberjsember
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