# Gideon Shils

> Senior Software Engineer at dbt Labs

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gideonshils

Software Engineer located in Philadelphia.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer (L4) @ dbt Labs
Jan 2024 – Present
Building dbt Cloud

### Senior Software Engineer (L3) @ dbt Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Remote

### Software Engineer (L2) @ dbt Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote

### Software Engineer @ Bazaarvoice
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Revamped Curalate’s content syndication service to integrate with Bazaarvoice’s retailer network APIs, enabling upgraded visual media syndication for 100+ migrated clients within 3 months of company acquisition
• Led the full stack technical design, development, testing, and release of an upgraded Instagram rights request workflow, accelerating feature adoption for 3 major retail brands due to decreased licensing liability

+ Continued the work started at Curalate, namely:

• Designed and implemented distributed RESTful microservices using Scala and Finatra, and built feature-rich UIs to power Curalate’s flagship social commerce platform using Typescript, React, and Redux

### Software Engineer (Acquired by Bazaarvoice) @ Curalate
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Designed and implemented distributed RESTful microservices using Scala and Finatra, and built feature-rich UIs to power Curalate’s flagship social commerce platform using Typescript, React, and Redux
• Architected a Kinesis, ECS, and Redis backed data streaming service for real-time replication of Instagram content to web-based media galleries, reducing dev ticket load by 15+ per month
• Launched and iterated on a React and Scala based visual ad generation tool, enabling first-of-its-kind distribution of product tagged media to Google’s Shoppable Ads beta
• Built a customizable frontend UI to covert React based media galleries into responsive HTML snippets for use in email campaigns, leading to over 2.5 million new gallery impressions
• Automated migration of 600+ clients to next-gen on-site gallery product, and built a high velocity continuous content import system for rapid onboarding to Curalate’s platform using Scala cron jobs and S3

### Software Development Intern @ Bit (Cocycles)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Tel Aviv, Israel
• Eliminated React library overhead by deconstructing three major open source libraries into 100+ isolated components and increasing individual test coverage using Mocha and Chai
• Simplified mass testing of JavaScript modules by discovering and patching critical workflow bugs while testing Bit’s open source code decomposition CLI
• Increased traffic to Bit’s community hub by developing reusable JavaScript modules for commonly googled issues
• Animated and edited promotional demo videos outlining Bit's workflow with a React application


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gideonshils
- Website: https://www.gideonshils.com
- GitHub: http://www.github.com/gideonshils

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Last updated: 2026-03-22