Dane Bratz
Staff Software Engineer at Ello
Mount Vernon, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDane Bratz is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building product-driven full‑stack systems and leading engineering teams from startup to exit. He co-founded and served as CTO of Skipper Hospitality—acquired in 2024—and has since led technical strategy and onboarding at Safara before moving to Ello to build a self‑directed 1:1 tutoring product for kids. Dane blends hands‑on engineering (contributing improvements to popular tooling like Kite’s VS Code autocomplete) with product and operational leadership, having driven rapid ARR growth and designed vetting/matching systems at Turing. He gravitates toward clear abstractions and pragmatic UX improvements, and his background ranges from founding teams to scaling distributed remote engineering. A Stanford Symbolic Systems graduate, he pairs technical depth with an entrepreneur’s appetite for building useful, user-centric systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Symbolic Systems, Bachelor's Degree Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Github Skills (8)
visual-studio-code-extension10
javascript10
typecript9
typescript9
typescripts9
react-r8
react8
reactn8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kiteco/vscode-plugin
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Kite Autocomplete Plugin for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 20 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dane primarily focused on improving the Kite Autocomplete Plugin for VS Code. Their contributions include fixing false notifications, refactoring code for better whitelisting of files, and turning off features for non-whitelisted files. They also addressed test failures and updated the plugin for different operating systems. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and the overall functionality of the plugin.
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionkiteautocomplete
SkillitCooking/adminAndBackend
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:292 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
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