Gordon Diggs
Engineering Manager, Ecosystem at NYC Mechanical Keyboard Meetup
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGordon Diggs is a people-focused engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling cross-functional teams and product platforms, currently leading Ecosystem engineering at Stripe in New York. He has a track record of shipping user-facing products and platform initiatives at The New York Times and Sema4, and has driven organizational growth, hiring, and process improvements across companies from startups to large enterprises. Technically hands-on early in his career and as an open-source contributor, he improves robustness, security, and observability—evident in work like strengthening a universal code-quality CLI with safer YAML handling, UID/GID execution, and statsd probes. He pairs strategic product sense (including interim GM experience) with a knack for operational detail and developer experience, and outside work organizes NYC’s mechanical keyboard meetup scene.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, French, B.A., Computer Science, French at Lehigh University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
management10
docker10
engine10
software-quality10
dockers10
security9
yaml9
static-analysis9
cicd8
postgresql6
data-mapper6
ruby6
go4
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
qltysh/qlty
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
💎 Code quality CLI for universal linting, auto-formatting, security scanning, and maintainability
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 releases, 331 commits, 163 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gordon focused on improving the codebase's robustness and operability. Their contributions include enhancing error handling and logging within the CLI by defaulting to safe YAML loading. They also added statsd probes for engine timeouts, indicating a focus on monitoring and alerting. Further, they modified engine execution, including running engines as an app user and using UID/GID, demonstrating an emphasis on security and resource management.
clilintingmaintainabilitysecurityquality
nycmkm/wonka
Dec 2022 - Nov 2025
Giveaway app based on Eventbrite attendees
Contributions:121 PRs, 145 pushes, 93 branches in 2 years 11 months
eventbrite
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