Dana Jones
Owner at Ebb & Flow Boutique
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDana Jones is a seasoned software leader and engineer with 13 years of experience building and managing distributed cross-functional teams, currently leading content intelligence engineering at Netflix while also launching a brick-and-mortar boutique. She blends hands-on full-stack Ruby on Rails development and open-source contributions (notably to the Spree e-commerce platform) with product-minded engineering management, prioritizing elegant code, clear communication, and psychological safety. Dana has a track record scaling teams across startups and large organizations—Gatsby, Abstract, Fractured Atlas—and running global, distributed engineering organizations. She mentors engineers at all levels, designs professional-development programs, and applies data and ML to help creative partners make high-stakes content decisions. Based in Eugene, Oregon, she champions diversity, inclusion, and documentation-driven practices that improve team throughput and onboarding. An entrepreneur at heart, she pairs technical depth with operational discipline and a knack for turning community work into practical product outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA BA Management Certificates in Innovation and Human Resource, Bachelor of Arts - BA BA Management Certificates in Innovation and Human Resource at University of Southern Indiana
French
Github Skills (15)
rspec10
rails10
front-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
commerce10
ecommerce10
documentation10
testing9
javascript8
jscript8
html8
back-end-development8
backend8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spree/spree
Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
An open source eCommerce platform giving you full control and customizability. Modular and API-first. Multi-vendor, multi-tenant, multi-store, multi-currency, multi-language. Built using Ruby on Rails. Developed by @vendo-dev
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:256 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dana contributed to the Spree e-commerce platform by implementing various features and fixing bugs across both frontend and backend components. Their work included adding a SpreeConf widget to the guides, implementing product page title tests, displaying the order number on completed orders, and correcting a FlexiRate calculator issue. Additionally, the user updated the user guides, fixed links, and standardized user guide file naming.
multi-sourceecommercemulti-languagespreecommerceshopware
spree/integration_tutorials
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 3 months
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