Greg Hurrell
greg@hurrell.net
github.com/wincent
x.com/wincent
wincent.dev

Profile
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Software Engineer

Experience
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Senior Software Engineer, GitHub — 2021–present
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Working on Repos, Pull Requests, and Codespaces.

Frontend Software Architect, Liferay — 2019–2021
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Designing and implementing JavaScript frameworks, libraries and tools.

Front-End Engineer, Facebook — 2014–2018
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Coder, mentor and tech lead working on Product Infrastructure — from
open source JavaScript libraries (Relay, GraphQL) to internal build and
developer tooling — and Ads Interfaces (among the largest and
full-featured React applications in the world).

Director of Engineering, Causes — 2011–2013
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Key player in the formation and maintenance of engineering culture
focused on quality, pragmatism, and individual and team development.
Mentored 10 direct reports. Full-stack development of many user-facing
features and underlying infrastructure. Implemented systematic code
review (via Gerrit). Served as Tech Lead, Coach and Mentor.

Owner/Operator, wincent.dev — 2002–2011
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Developed macOS applications in C and Objective-C, Rails applications,
and a large number of open source projects.

Education
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Flinders University, 1999 — Bachelor of Education (UP/LS)(Hons)

Awards
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Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology Staff Prize in
English (Flinders University)

University Medal (Flinders University)

Australian College of English Prize in Teacher Education

Golden Key Scholar Award

Publications
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Sharpening the axe (VimConf 2020) — 2020
https://youtu.be/iEShYRRVZOE

Scalable Frontend Development — 2019
https://youtu.be/b_aozg2vaJE

Relay 2 - simpler, faster, and more predictable — 2016
https://youtu.be/OEfUBN9dAI8

Relay Deep Dive — 2016
https://youtu.be/oPSuvaYmXBY

Migrating Rails with a Large Codebase — 2012
https://youtu.be/qgCM2bca49w

Skills
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Programming languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Lua, Ruby, Rust, C, Go,
Haskell, PHP, Perl, Objective-C.

Tools: HTML/CSS, Zsh/Bash, Neovim/Vim, Git/Mercurial, MySQL/Redis,
Ansible, AWS.

Spoken languages: English (native), Spanish (DELE level C1, "Advanced").