Yoshi Gillaspie
Head Of Engineering at Ciro
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYoshi Gillaspie is a Head of Engineering based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building and leading software teams across startups and large tech companies. He combines a hands-on engineering mindset—rooted in a mathematics minor and a love of logic—with leadership roles at Ciro, Watson, Zeus, and a stint as a software engineer at Facebook. Yoshi is passionate about elegant, efficient code and pragmatic TDD practices, often solving tricky performance problems like complex SQL optimization to eliminate n+1 queries. He thrives on mentorship, pair programming and continuous improvement, applying the same disciplined curiosity he brings to rock climbing and cooking to technical challenges. Known for moving from individual contributor to senior management while keeping coding at his core, he balances product delivery with building engineering org capability. Outside work he values travel, family, and the pursuit of incremental growth—always trying to be better than the day before.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (68)
jsonb10
sqlite10
nodejs10
javascript9
sql9
database9
d19
postgresql9
db29
databases9
mssql9
orm9
oracle9
mysql9
mariadb9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yoshig/typeracer
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:71 commits in 1 month
ahoym/The-Hotel-Chat
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:22 commits in 28 days
node-jsjavascriptchatcreate-chatroom
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