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 (106)
parser10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
webpages10
commonmark10
custom-element10
rows10
stylelint10
markdown10
javascript10
document-repository10
html10
hyperlink10
angular10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AlaskaAirlines/auro-library
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
Library of shared auro workflows, scripts, and utilities.
Contributions:79 releases, 24 reviews, 14 PRs in 3 years 1 month
aurodesign-systemutilities
AlaskaAirlines/Icons
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Custom HTML element for inputting string data in forms
Contributions:26 releases, 56 reviews, 205 commits in 4 years 1 month
html-elementdesign-systemiconsauro
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