Dan Hauk
Staff Product Designer at Bestow
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDan Hauk is a Staff Product Designer with over 15 years of experience crafting B2B and consumer-facing products, currently shaping holistic customer journeys at Bestow. He blends strategic design thinking, continuous discovery, and data-informed decision making to influence product and business strategy while mentoring design teams and driving cross-functional alignment. Previously at Automattic he led domain and WordPress.com experiences and contributed production-ready front-end code to high-profile projects like the Calypso codebase, improving accessibility and UX for millions of users. A former design co-founder of Cucumbertown, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with deep visual and interaction design skills rooted in a graphic design degree from Millersville University. Notably, he bridges design and engineering fluently—shipping prototypes, polished visuals, and front-end implementations that move quickly from concept to production.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design and Visual Communication, Graphic Design and Visual Communication at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
css9
wordpress8
accessibility8
html8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jan 2016 - Jun 2020
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:120 commits, 134 PRs, 213 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the front-end components and UI of the WordPress.com Calypso project. Their work included refactoring existing components, updating button labels and text, modifying page headings for improved navigation, and refining the visual styles and layout of various sections, particularly within the customer home and domain management areas. They also implemented and improved the use of Material Icons. The user consistently addressed accessibility concerns and improved the overall user experience.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
danhauk/danhauk
Jun 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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