Dan Abramov
Software Engineer at Meta
United Kingdom
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Dan Abramov is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience focused on front-end engineering, tooling, and performance, currently based in the United Kingdom and working at Meta. He has deep expertise in React ecosystem projects—contributing to flagship repositories like react, react-router, create-react-app, React DevTools and Redux DevTools—where his work spans routing, hot reloading, compiler optimizations, and developer experience. Dan pairs pragmatic full‑stack skills with a strong testing and QA mindset, having improved Jest, prop-types, and build/tooling workflows across multiple projects. He’s comfortable refactoring core libraries for performance and edge cases (Babel, prepack, Xamarin.Auth) while also crafting polished UX for documentation and apps (react.dev, overreacted.io). Notably, his contributions often touch critical developer-facing behavior—scrolling strategies, Fast Refresh, and debugging tools—making daily developer workflows smoother and more reliable.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Saint Petersburg University of Telecommunications
Stackoverflow
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649answers
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Github Skills (171)
mobile-development10
website-development10
abstract-syntax-tree10
react-redux10
testing10
plugin-development10
authentication10
redux-thunk10
xamarin-ios10
visual-studio10
bundler10
functional-components10
web-development10
website-design10
jsx10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
gaearon/whatthefuck.is
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
An opinionated glossary of computer science terms for front-end developers. Written by Dan Abramov.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 44 pushes in 17 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and overall experience of the glossary application. Their contributions involved modifying the header, footer, and page components, along with style adjustments to the global CSS and markdown styling. They introduced functionality related to conditional swearing and created a 404 error page. Additionally, the user implemented a link to a curse-free mirror and integrated Google Analytics tracking.
frontendjavascriptglossary
gaearon/babel-plugin-react-transform
Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
Babel plugin to instrument React components with custom transforms
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 66 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the core functionality of the Babel plugin for React transforms. They addressed option name changes, improved the file processing logic, and fixed compatibility issues with older Node.js versions. Furthermore, the user removed deprecated configuration formats and updated dependencies, ensuring the plugin's maintainability and alignment with modern best practices. The commits demonstrate an understanding of JavaScript, Babel plugins, and React.
babel-pluginreact-componentreact-components
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