Anthony Dillon
Engineering Director at Canonical
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Dillon is an Engineering Director at Canonical with 13 years of web engineering experience, leading teams that deliver web applications, websites, and the Canonical design system, Vanilla. A University of Essex computer science graduate, he began his career building immersive online experiences for the Gorillaz—work that earned a Webby—and has since scaled design, architecture, and engineering practices across Canonical. He combines hands-on front-end expertise (notably contributions to the vanilla-framework CSS/JS and build tooling) with strategic leadership that enables decentralized decision-making and rapid, sustainable delivery. Passionate about open source, he prioritizes robust design systems to maintain consistency and accelerate product teams. Known for a positive, motivating style, he focuses relentlessly on user experience and developing teams into world-class performers. Based in the UK, he blends creative early-career roots with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
1st Computer Science, 1st Computer Science at University of Essex
Github Skills (6)
sass10
gulp10
javascript10
html9
css-frameworks9
css9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/vanilla-framework
Feb 2015 - Jul 2021
From community websites to web applications, this CSS framework will help you achieve a consistent look and feel.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 129 reviews, 396 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the JavaScript and Sass files, indicating a focus on front-end development. They added JavaScript functionality and a gulpfile, suggesting the implementation of UI components and build processes. Further commits involved modifying the demo index file to refine user interface and design. The commits highlight contributions to the framework's CSS and JavaScript aspects.
lookweb-applicationssasslook-and-feelcss
canonical/cn.ubuntu.com
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
Codebase for Chinese marketing site
Contributions:74 reviews, 171 commits, 134 PRs in 7 years 4 months
chinesepythondjangomarketingmarketing-site
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