Wil Gieseler
Founder at Game Department
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolWil Gieseler is a founder and multidisciplinary software engineer with 18 years of experience building products that blend engineering, design, and storytelling from Los Angeles. He has led teams and shipped platform-scale systems at Looker, created the first hosted code coverage service Coveralls, and now runs startups focused on filmmaking tools and indie game development. Equally comfortable in product, UX, and backend architecture, Wil repeatedly bridges creative workflows and robust engineering to turn ideas into usable tools. His career includes a failed but instructive social startup, demonstrating a bias for experimentation and rapid learning. Trained in film production, he brings a storyteller’s eye to product design, making technical work feel human and useful.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Film Production, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Film Production at Chapman University
English
Stackoverflow
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xcode
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shell
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Github Skills (200)
chat10
svg10
markov-chain10
html10
visualization10
sms10
ruby10
ruby-client10
facebook-messenger10
steamworks10
slack10
bugtracking10
rails-admin10
slash-commands10
looker10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
wilg/xboxlivefriends
Jun 2008 - Jan 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 5 years 7 months
wilg/eventinator
Apr 2009 - Mar 2010
Contributions:3 commits in 10 months
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