Dale Lotts
President, XP Technical Coach And Full Stack Software Engineer at Knight Rider Consulting, Inc
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDale Lotts is a player-coach and full-stack software engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience helping teams adopt Lean, Agile, and Extreme Programming practices while shipping production features. As President of Knight Rider Consulting and a former Senior Engineer at Meta, he embeds with teams to pair-program, teach TDD, and implement CI/CD across stacks including Node, React, Angular, Java/Spring Boot, and Docker. He’s driven measurable engineering improvements—from halving ASIC test runtimes and cutting nightly test suites from 8+ hours to under 30 minutes, to introducing automated provisioning and CI that accelerated releases at Pearson VUE. A seasoned instructor and curriculum author, he has delivered bootcamp-style training for enterprises (IBM, Visa, Allstate) and created full-stack learning materials that tie practical engineering skills to business value. Dale is also an active open-source front-end contributor, notably building an Angular Bootstrap datetime picker, reflecting a persistent focus on developer ergonomics and UX. He combines deep technical craft with organizational coaching to help teams move from “doing” agile to truly living it.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
javascript10
twitter-bootstrap10
angular10
secret-key6
synchronous6
shared-libraries6
angularjs6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dalelotts/angular-bootstrap-datetimepicker
Jul 2013 - Feb 2020
Native Angular date/time picker component styled by Twitter Bootstrap
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 309 commits, 96 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dale's primary contribution involved the initial development of an Angular component for a date/time picker, styled with Twitter Bootstrap. Their work included the creation of the core component functionality, including the initial template structure and user interaction logic for navigating between views (year, month, day, hour, minute). The commits show a focus on building the UI and the associated data models, reflecting front-end development expertise in an Angular environment.
datepickerdate-time-pickertimeagoanguar5datetime-picker
dalelotts/angular-prime-directive
Sep 2013 - Nov 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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