Dan Allen
Senior Director Of Engineering at Weave
Utah, United States
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Top SchoolDan Allen is a hands-on engineering leader and entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience building hardware-enabled products and scaling software teams, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Weave. He combines electrical engineering roots (FPGA, firmware, satellite systems) with full-stack development skills in JavaScript and Python, and has taken products from concept through mass production and patent filings. As co-founder and president of VSSL he led product design, manufacturing in China, and early integrations with Chromecast, AirPlay and Spotify Connect, demonstrating a rare blend of technical depth and go-to-market execution. Known for detail-oriented yet big-picture leadership, he coaches cross-disciplinary teams, designs UX/UI, and still enjoys diving into code when needed. Outside work he pursues endurance sports—he’s a Boston Marathon qualifier with ultramarathon ambitions—reflecting the same iterative, improvement-driven mindset he brings to product development.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at Utah State UniversityMBA New Product Development Entreprenuership, MBA New Product Development Entreprenuership at University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business
Thai
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (67)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
material-ui10
javascript10
react-components10
html10
angular10
rich-text10
typescript10
vue10
svelte10
documentation10
react-component-library10
react-native10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
justdanallen/chakra-ui-ionicons
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Ion Icons (v5) built with the Icon wrapper from Chakra UI
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 days
chakrachakra-ui
justdanallen/React-Redux-React-Router-Firebase-Starter
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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