Greg Slovacek
Engineering Management Coach at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Slovacek is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 14+ years building scalable product and platform infrastructure, most notably as a founding engineer and later Head of Workflow and Platform Engineering at Asana. He has shipped core APIs, integrations, and user-facing features—driving major launches like an automation system, desktop app, enterprise Search API, and a 3x API read performance improvement—while scaling engineering orgs to support rapid growth. Greg combines hands-on prototyping and ML product research with strong people leadership, hiring and mentoring engineering managers, creating interview training, and founding developer relations. After stepping away in 2021 to care for family, he’s refocusing on opportunities at the intersection of AI product innovation and safety, aiming to deliver useful ML features while minimizing downsides. Notably, his early work included building a live query/reactive framework precursor and authoring patents and infrastructure improvements that outlasted multiple product generations.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brown University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
asana-api10
nodejs10
js-client10
ruby-client9
python8
php8
errorcode8
java8
node-library7
concurrency6
api6
rest6
asana6
web-application6
react-component4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Asana/node-asana
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Official node.js and browser JS client for the Asana API v1
Contributions:25 releases, 164 commits, 44 PRs in 10 months
asana-apijs-clientnodejs
AsanaArchive/Chrome-Extension-Example
Feb 2012 - Sep 2016
Sample application illustrating use of the Asana API
Contributions:72 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 7 months
asana-api
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