Alastair Dant
Principal UI UX Engineer at Monad
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlastair Dant is a Principal UI/UX Engineer with 14 years of experience building data-rich, production-grade front ends that make complex systems usable and explorable. He combines full-stack fluency with a bias for fast, iterative delivery—moving features from prototype to live release in days using AI-assisted workflows. As a founding engineer at Fathom and former leads at Primer, RIFFYN and major newsrooms, he’s shipped performant virtualized viewers, interactive extraction tools, and custom visualization platforms that turned messy documents into actionable datasets. He’s equally comfortable designing DAG-based process editors and large-scale browser analytics as he is implementing SOC2-aligned CI/CD, feature flags, and automated test suites. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a BSc in Cognitive Science from UCL, he blends user-focused design, data visualization expertise, and a long history of cross-functional collaboration. An understated strength is his knack for turning editorial or scientific workflows into intuitive UIs that accelerate decision-making and close deals.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
French
Github Skills (39)
visualizer10
state-machine10
fsm10
javascript9
statechart9
state-management9
react8
typescript8
interpreter8
utility-mod8
scxml7
orchestration7
plotly6
charts6
webgl6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rflow/forkosawa
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 24 issues in 1 year 1 month
PrimerAI/world-atlas
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
Pre-built TopoJSON from Natural Earth.
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
earthnaturaljsontopojsonnatural-earth
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