Dan Gebhardt
Principal Software Engineer And Co-Founder at Tilde Inc
New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolDan Gebhardt is a Principal Software Engineer and co-founder with over 20 years building ambitious web applications and 15 years of formal industry experience. He specializes in open source ecosystems—co-leading work on Ember.js, Orbit.js, and the JSON:API spec—and brings a full-stack perspective that spans front-end framework improvements to backend API resource design. At Cerebris and as a consultant with Tilde, he helps teams adopt robust architectures and shipping practices, often contributing nuanced refactors and feature work that improve testability and extensibility. His background in naval architecture informs a practical, systems-oriented approach to engineering complex data flows and tooling. Notably, he has driven significant changes in prominent projects like ember-data and discourse, balancing developer ergonomics with production scalability.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at McQuaid JesuitB.Sc. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, B.Sc. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Webb Institute
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Github Skills (48)
json10
javascript10
ember-data10
handlebars10
api-design10
highlight10
testing10
syntax-highlighter10
css10
sass10
typescript10
ember-cli10
glimmerjs10
dataframe10
ruby10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
orbitjs/orbit
Jul 2013 - Sep 2022
Composable data framework for ambitious web applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 releases, 4 reviews, 2300 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan made several contributions to the Orbit.js framework, focusing on enhancing its data handling capabilities. They implemented source decorators to improve data flow and manage operations, added functionality for specifying source constructor options, and introduced union types for use with Query.from() and Transform.from(). These additions seem designed to make the framework more extensible and flexible. The user also refactored various components, contributing to the overall architecture of the project.
web-applicationsorbitframeworkorbitdbcomposable
json-api/json-api
Nov 2013 - Oct 2022
A specification for building JSON APIs
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 499 commits, 416 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on the front-end aspects of the project, specifically the styling and layout of the JSON API documentation. They restyled the website with a new logo, header, and footer, and updated various CSS files to reflect design changes. The contributions included adjustments to typography, header links, and the overall visual presentation of the documentation. The user also implemented a version indicator in the navigation.
apijsonapispecificationjson-apisjson-schema
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