Dale French
Engineering Manager at Vio
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDale French is an engineering manager and former senior frontend/full-stack engineer with a decade of experience building customer-facing web and mobile products, currently leading the Search product team at Vio in Amsterdam. He combines hands-on React, Next.js and React Native expertise with product-focused delivery, having driven a digital portal that scaled self-service events twelvefold and saved operations hours weekly. Dale has a track record of improving developer experience through a custom React design system and integrating automated underwriting flows to streamline business processes. He moved from South Africa to the Netherlands, bringing cross-cultural product sensibilities and a history of shipping end-to-end solutions from startups to enterprise contexts. Known for pragmatic leadership, he still writes and reviews code regularly, bridging strategy and execution. Outside work he blends graphic-design roots with engineering, which informs his attention to UI consistency and developer ergonomics.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Crawford College PretoriaGraphic Design and Web Development, Graphic Design and Web Development at CTU Training Solutions
English
Stackoverflow
638reputation
63kreached
7answers
18questions
Github Skills (141)
github10
python10
react-native-bridge10
pullrequest10
digitalocean10
git10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
react-navigation10
ios10
react-native10
react10
javascript9
redux-devtools-extension9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dale-french/south-african-id-validator
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Dead simple validator for South African ID numbers 🇿🇦
Contributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 5 months
validatorsouthvalidationafrican
dale-french/me
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
My personal website
Contributions:7 commits, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 month
reactnextjs
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