Riley Gibbs
Senior Software Engineer at Baton
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRiley Gibbs is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable backend systems and shipping product-focused solutions across startups and established teams. Currently at Baton in Vancouver, he brings senior engineering depth shaped by prior roles at Sure, Albert, and a long tenure as Senior Backend Developer at CitizenNet (Condé Nast). Riley pairs strong CS fundamentals (MS from Georgia Tech) with an educator’s clarity—he previously taught math and computer science, which informs his mentorship and ability to simplify complex problems. He gravitates toward hard problems and pragmatic solutions, moving between hands-on implementation and system design. Outside of engineering, he helped run Nerd Nite LA, blending technical curiosity with community-building and public communication. This mix of production-grade experience, teaching background, and event leadership makes him effective at delivering dependable software while growing teams and developer culture.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Secondary Math Education, MA, Secondary Math Education at Bard CollegeBachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (42)
datetime10
python10
converting10
datetimes10
compatibility10
datatypes9
json9
connect-four9
validation9
cas9
schema9
deserialization9
serde9
browser8
formatter8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rileyjohngibbs/CASComSci_2019-2020
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
Crossroads CAS Computer Science, 2019-2020
Contributions:118 commits, 6 PRs, 104 pushes in 7 months
crossroadssciencedata-sciencemachine-learningcomputer-science
rileyjohngibbs/hard-twenty
May 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:70 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
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