Dan Webb
VP Of Engineering at Imperial College London
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Webb is a veteran engineering leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams and systems for consumer and enterprise products. He has led large orgs at Deliveroo and Twitter, managed Spark AR teams at Facebook, and now serves as VP of Engineering while advising startups on hiring and technical leadership. Equally comfortable in front-end and back-end work, his open-source contributions include meaningful improvements to Twitter’s Flight framework and a REST client for Node.js, reflecting hands-on craftsmanship at scale. He also co-founded Existent to streamline Unreal Engine spatial app development and guest lectures on innovation at Imperial College, showing a blend of product entrepreneurship and academic engagement. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines deep engineering pragmatism with a knack for culture and process that repeatedly accelerates growing teams.
18 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (15)
component-based10
json10
modular-architecture10
api-rest10
rest-api10
nodejs10
javascript10
front-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
amd10
yaml9
build-process9
xml9
testing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
danwrong/restler
Nov 2009 - Aug 2013
REST client library for node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the development of the REST client library for node.js. Their work involved integrating external libraries for URI and querystring handling. They added essential features such as basic authentication support and implemented parsers for JSON, XML, and YAML data formats, enhancing the library's ability to handle diverse API responses. Further contributions included improving the documentation and adding tests.
apiclient-librarynode-jsrest-clientnodejs
flightjs/flight
Feb 2013 - Sep 2014
A component-based, event-driven JavaScript framework from Twitter
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the JavaScript framework. Their work included adding build process checkpoints, integrating minified versions of the amd-shim, and incorporating standalone tests to ensure proper functionality. Further modifications included restructuring the file directories and adding a make file for build process management. Refactoring of component constructors and attribute systems were also implemented.
component-basedjavascript-frameworkjavascriptevent-driventwitter
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