Dan Dean is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a track record of driving cross-team technical strategy and delivery at companies like Webflow and Splice. He combines deep front-end expertise with full-stack fluency—spearheading initiatives such as cross-platform design systems, GraphQL adoption, and CI/CD migration to GitHub Actions—to make organizations more efficient at shipping product. A people-first leader, he emphasizes collaboration and empathy while mentoring teams and aligning design and engineering. His background in graphic design, photography, interactive visual art, and music informs a strong product sensibility and attention to craft that shows up in the tools and systems he builds. Based in Seattle, he consistently learns what’s needed to solve problems end-to-end and prefers practical solutions that scale across teams.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Photography at University of Washington
Associate of Arts - AA, Political Science, Associate of Arts - AA, Political Science at North Seattle College
A Storybook addon for presenting and configuring branch previews
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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Dan Dean - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Webflow