Shane O'grady
VP Of Engineering at Glassdoor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShane O'grady is a business-focused engineering executive with 15 years of experience scaling product and international engineering organizations, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Glassdoor in San Francisco. He combines hands-on technical chops—from Rails back-end and DevOps work to Heroku deployments—to streamline delivery and operational reliability across complex teams. As a two-time co-founder and former CTO, he brings entrepreneurial instincts for product-market fit and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. He’s known for turning fragmented orgs into outcome-driven engineering functions while still contributing to open-source deployment tooling that improves CI/CD and notification flows.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer & Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Computer & Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering at Athlone Institute of Technology
English, Portuguese, French
Stackoverflow
2,475reputation
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35answers
2questions
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jquery-validate
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Github Skills (19)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
jquery-validate9
jquery9
devops9
bundler9
heroku8
cicd7
encryption6
orm6
php6
slack6
css6
doctrine6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
atmos/heaven
Jun 2015 - May 2016
:walking: Rails app for GitHub Flow
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily focused on improving the deployment and configuration aspects of the Rails application. They added customization options for Slack notifications, allowing for custom names and icons. The user updated dependencies, addressing compatibility issues with Ruby 2.2.x. Furthermore, they introduced support for private Bundler sources and made changes to support Heroku deployment, including the archive format.
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsrubywalking
shaneog/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:296 commits, 193 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
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