Dana Woodman

DANA WOODMAN

DANA WOODMAN

Senior full-stack software engineer

Skills

LANGUAGES

  • JavaScript (12yr),
  • Typescript (3yr),
  • Golang (3yr),
  • HTML5 (15yr),
  • CSS3/LESS/SASS (15yr)

TOOLS

  • React (7yr),
  • React Native (2yr),
  • Node.js (8yr),
  • Svelte (2yr),
  • Express.js,
  • Redux,
  • TailwindCSS

OTHER

  • Testing (Jest/Vitest/Cypress/Playwright),
  • TDD/BDD,
  • CI/CD pipelines,
  • Databases (PostgresSQL/SQLite/MongoDB),
  • Serverless/Edge/traditional computing (Cloudflare/AWS/Vercel/Heroku),
  • git (12yr),
  • Figma,
  • i18n,
  • a11y

Work Experience

August 2022 → Present

Senior Software Developer @ CommunityBoss

Community Boss helps make your community a better place to live, easier to manage, and more valuable to own.

June 2021 → Feb* 2022

Consultant @ Zenni Optical

World's leading online prescription glass e-commerce store.

  • Led a homepage rewrite which improved key conversion metrics by 25% for their ~7mm monthly visitors.
  • Increased their page speed by 17% on mobile, 32% on desktop. Scored 92% on accessibility.
  • Identified key areas of performance impact across other pages, resulting in 50%+ page speed increases on some pages.
  • Developed architecture within a legacy system enhancing developer speed, productivity and easing maintenance burdens.
March 2020 → March 2021

CTO @ ChainList (formerly Bonsai)

A "smart checklist" SaaS product with checklist "templates", scheduling, version control, auto-assignment, and more.

  • Worked with CEO to define a product vision, roadmap and visual brand including a React and Figma UI library.
  • Architected an elegant approach to complex event scheduling backed by robust unit testing (Jest).
  • Created a lightweight embeddable widget (think Twitter Card) for sharing checklists including OEmbed API and Open Graph tags for link sharing.
June 2018 → Feb 2020

VP of Web and Mobile @ remote.it

A SaaS product to enable secure remote connections to devices anywhere in the world without port-forwarding.

  • Increased the addressable market of customers and reduced user pain-points by creating a suite of cross-platform applications (React Native mobile app, React + Electron desktop app, Golang CLI)
  • Defined product direction for a team of 4 senior developers, established best practices (CI/testing/code review), and built a UI toolkit (React + Storybook) to standardize our design across products.
  • Built a CLI that managed device registations, service processes, and system services that worked consistently across operating systems.
  • Managed 12 interns (yes, you read that right) and got them pushing meaningful code to production within their first week.

* Work gap for Feb-June 2022 explanation: Took a 4 month sabbatical to sail across the Pacific ocean from Panama to French Polynesia.

Additional Experience

  • Consulting: Managed my own consulting company for over 10 years including client development, administration, and managing remote contractors working with a variety of industries, product types and team dynamics.
  • MEX Assistant: Built a Chrome browser extension (Svelte) and a web app (Sapper, Gumroad, Auth0) and backend that managed signups and subscriptions that gave crypto traders advanced tools. Developed a real-time sync between the exchange's UI (updates multiple times a second) and the extension, while making this process robust yet simple.
  • Google: Built a Ruby on Rails API service for a mobile app for the Think with Google event series including chat and calendar features.
  • Contactly: Co-founder of a SaaS product (React Chrome Extension, Node + Express + MongoDB web app) that allowed customers to find leads via LinkedIn as well as an advanced system for generating and testing possible email addresses using telnet and other techniques.
  • Bonafide: Developed a UI toolkit (React + utility CSS) to help their dev team migrate their 4mm+ LOC codebase and a plan for progressively migrating the UI without interfering with their existing business initiatives.
  • SunEdison: Lead a migration of a legacy codebase to React for their core product, a global solar dashboard system.
  • ExtendSketchUp: Founded the first ever SketchUp plugin marketplace (Django) and companion Ruby plugin that made installing a one-click process compared to an incredibly clunky process. The plugin and web app allowed users to search and browse based on search query, category, rating and other factors.
  • Other notable work: Realtime event management system and label printing system. Printshop managemnt system (React, Node, Postgres). Learning managment platform (React, Node, Neo4j). Shopify app for customizable products (React, Node).

Personal Experience

  • CNC machining control system: A tool for hobbyist makers (React + WebSockets + Arduino) including real-time syncing of machine location and state and a tool to send GCODE (manual or files) to the machine to run jobs.
  • RFID security access control system: Synced with a membership database to allow entry using RFID cards (Golang + RaspberryPi + Arduino) to our makerspace, including a visual feedback UI (React).

Open Source Experience

  • react-fontawesome: Managed the most used FontAwesome library for React (~670 Github stars, 12mm total npm downloads), prior to FontAwesome releasing their own official React components.
  • 10+ yr involvement in Open Source with ~70 repos on my Github and a collection of packages published on npm.

Speaking, Writing & Community

  • Meetups: Co-founded Hack Sonoma County and NorCal.js meetup groups. Organized and presented at dozens of meetups as well as writing content on Dev.to and my blog.
  • Chimera Makerspace: Founded the first community makerspace north of San Francisco. Grew it to 250+ paying members and a team of volunteer staff in a 3k+ sq.ft. facility.
  • Nation of Makers: Invited to a national makerspace convention at President Obama's White House. Selected for a 7-person steering committee to form the organization and secure funding and board members of a new national organization serving makerspaces.

Other Experience

  • SonomaFireInfo.org: Co-founded a disaster response site that served the most up-to-date information during the 2017 Northern California wildfires to over 170k people with a team of 60+ volunteers.
  • Meter Made Sculpture: Created the first interactive light sculpture to be installed in downtown Santa Rosa, California. The solar powered sculpture featured hundreds of LEDs controlled by a cellular connected Arduino microcontroller.