Dan Purdy is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Wonderbly in London after rising through senior technical and management roles. He began as a front-end specialist and full-stack developer, leading frontend disciplines at Urban and architecting web solutions across agencies before moving into product engineering leadership. Dan combines hands-on development—evidenced by notable open-source contributions to sass-lint enhancing Sass rule coverage—with strategic team building and delivery at scale across ecommerce and fintech. He’s known for coaching teams, improving engineering practices, and bridging design and implementation to ship polished customer-facing experiences. With a background in Music Technology & Audio Systems, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset and an appreciation for meticulous engineering and UX detail. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative leader who enjoys teaching while driving measurable improvements in team capability and product quality.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Music Technology & Audio Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Music Technology & Audio Systems at The University of Huddersfield
Contributions:16 releases, 790 commits, 487 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the development of the `sass-lint` project by implementing new rules and features related to Sass linting. Their work focused on enhancing the functionality of the project by adding rules for hex length, hex notation, hex validation, and comment and variable handling, as well as improvements to existing rules such as mixins and declarations. They also created and modified tests to validate the implementation of these new functionalities and ensure that the project continues to meet its purpose.
Contributions:5 releases, 54 commits, 30 PRs in 3 months
linterlintsassatom-lintersass-lint
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