Greg Wilken
Lead Product Engineer at The Daily Beast
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Wilken is a Lead Product Engineer with nine years of software experience and a background in professional photography and arts education, now based in Los Angeles. He has progressed from hands-on full‑stack development to engineering leadership across consumer media and lifestyle brands, most recently leading product engineering at The Daily Beast after roles at World of Good Brands and Leaf Group. Greg blends visual design sensibility from an MFA and BFA in photography with pragmatic product delivery, enabling teams to ship polished, user-focused experiences. His career reflects a rare mix of creative discipline and technical ownership—he started as a professional photographer and educator before transitioning into product engineering and management.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Fine and Studio Arts, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Fine and Studio Arts at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Photography at Otis College of Art and DesignRepublic of Kiribati - South Pacific Islands Nations, Republic of Kiribati - South Pacific Islands Nations at Fulbright Scholarship
Github Skills (10)
wireless10
nodejs10
mongodb10
react10
hardware10
iot9
python-modules2
python2
frontend1
tile-server1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gwilken/ariadne-io
Jun 2017 - May 2020
A wireless hardware and software IoT project that monitors multiple streams of data from a sailboat. Access realtime information on any web enabled device. Built with React, Node.js, MongoDB, and Express
Contributions:1540 commits, 1472 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 11 months
hardwareiotmongodbnodejsreact
gwilken/shipwreck-explorer
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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