Conlin Durbin
Frontend Engineer at Whatnot
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConlin Durbin is a Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant, accessible web platforms, currently shaping App Platform architecture at Whatnot. He has led frontend efforts and design systems at companies including HackerRank, Payscale, Lessonly, and early-stage teams at Agora and Mimir, blending practical React/TypeScript engineering with product-focused process improvements. Conlin also brings people leadership and tech-lead experience, having managed engineering teams through acquisition and built component libraries, Storybook, and GraphQL integrations. Outside work he runs a tabletop roleplaying game studio and designs games, a creative outlet that informs his attention to UX, documentation, and playful technical storytelling. Based in Indianapolis, he’s a Typescripter, physical-media collector, and writes about the “weird web,” reflecting a mix of craft, curiosity, and long-term platform thinking.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Greensburg Community High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Economics at Purdue University
English, German, Scottish Gaelic, css
Stackoverflow
86reputation
8kreached
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Github Skills (200)
retext10
ruby10
dns10
vanilla-extract10
javascript10
equality10
stylesheets10
rails10
dictionary10
github-pages10
subdomain10
dedicated10
open-source10
react10
indy9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wuz/wuz
Jul 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
wuz/all_google_fonts
Oct 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 11 months
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