Dale Sande
Principal Engineer at Alaska Airlines
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDale Sande is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently shaping Alaska Airlines’ Auro Design System and driving an enterprise-wide shift to HTML custom elements and cross-team open-source development. He blends deep front-end architecture expertise with a coach-and-evangelist style, mentoring designers and engineers to adopt scalable, accessible UI component patterns and modern development practices. Dale has a long track record of building design systems and style-guide-driven workflows for companies ranging from Microsoft and REI to Best Buy and startups, consistently prioritizing semantic HTML, performance, and accessibility. He led transitions from siloed team development to shared, inner-source models that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery across diverse tech stacks. Based in Issaquah, WA, he pairs hands-on engineering with education—having taught advanced front-end topics at CodeFellows—and often surfaces pragmatic process changes as well as technical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, JavaScript: Advanced Web Application, Certification, JavaScript: Advanced Web Application at University of WashingtonAssociates, Visual Communications, Associates, Visual Communications at Madison College Business Technology
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Github Skills (186)
icon-pack10
parser10
displays10
buttons10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
logos10
webpages10
commonmark10
branding10
ember10
custom-element10
isolation10
markdown10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AlaskaAirlines/auro-card
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
Custom element for the purpose of providing a flexible way to convey a summary of information
Contributions:28 releases, 36 reviews, 24 PRs in 4 years 1 month
auropurposeconveydesign-systemflexible
AlaskaAirlines/auro-checkbox
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Custom element for the purpose of allowing users to select one or more options of a limited number of choices.
Contributions:29 releases, 36 reviews, 54 PRs in 4 years 9 months
custom-inputcustom-input-elementtype-ofaurocheckbox
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