Daniel Gregoire
Head Of Engineering at Shortcut
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Gregoire is a Head of Engineering with 15 years of experience leading teams to deliver measurable business value through understandable, scalable systems and a strong emphasis on a diverse, psychologically safe culture. He rose through engineering, team lead, and management roles at companies like Shortcut, Reify Health, RentPath, and LivingSocial, pairing hands-on Clojure functional programming with pragmatic product-driven leadership. Daniel favors open source and has contributed practical tooling improvements—such as enhancing Emacs CoffeeScript support for Windows and live compilation—to real developer workflows. Based in Summerville, SC, he blends technical depth across backend and frontend architectures with a focus on performance and clear outcome mapping, and he often brings an engineer’s attention to clarity and refactor-driven improvements that quietly reduce long-term maintenance costs.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Russian, BA, Russian at Georgetown University
Russian
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Github Skills (23)
coffeescript10
emacs-lisp10
regex9
drupal9
windows9
sys9
clojure9
operating-system9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
multiplatform7
cross-platform7
automation7
platform-independent7
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
defunkt/coffee-mode
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Emacs Major Mode for CoffeeScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 16 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to improving the functionality of the Emacs CoffeeScript mode. They added support for Cygwin-style paths on Windows systems, enabling file compilation. Furthermore, they implemented the `--watch` flag for live CoffeeScript compilation and provided a general function for running CoffeeScript commands with custom arguments within Emacs. The user also refactored existing code to increase clarity and efficiency.
emacsmajor-mode
useshortcut/exporter
Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
Shortcut data exporter
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 7 months
exporterclubhouse
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