Dane Mackier
Founder And Team Lead at FilledStacks
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDane Mackier is a founder and team lead with nearly a decade of hands-on experience shipping mobile apps and leading a Flutter-focused agency, FilledStacks, which has helped businesses deliver polished, high-quality mobile products for over ten years. He blends deep technical craft—recognized by Google as a mobile app developer expert—with product-minded engineering, having built open-source backend tooling and REST APIs used in production by larger teams. Early experience building cross-platform game engines and C++ work at Derivco informs his pragmatic approach to performance and architecture, while his work as a CTO and educator shows a talent for scaling teams and mentoring developers. Passionate about UI, animations, and developer experience, he also creates tools and systems that speed delivery and raise app quality, and he’s actively demonstrated this through projects like the FilledStacks boxtout backend. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, Dane combines entrepreneurial grit with a developer-first mindset that prioritizes craft, process, and delightful user interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Degree Computer Software Engineering, Honors Degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Cape Town
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
expressjs10
rest-api10
firebase-functions10
google-cloud-functions9
firebase-cloud-functions9
typescript9
azure-functions9
ibm-cloud-functions9
typescript-types9
backbutton9
flutter9
firebase9
typescripts9
dart9
cocos2d-x6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
FilledStacks/boxtout
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
An open source food delivery product and service that will be developed on the FilledStacks YouTube channel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 63 commits, 17 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dane primarily focused on setting up and expanding the back-end infrastructure for the food delivery product. Their initial work involved establishing the basic structure for the back-end, likely using Firebase Functions. Subsequently, they implemented functionality to automatically collect and export function files and added RESTful APIs. They also created a class representation to reduce code duplication.
food-deliveryyoutube-channelproduct-deliveryfirebasefood
FilledStacks/stacked-example
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
A full example of a production ready architecture setup by FilledStacks for application development
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 7 months
dddproduction-readycqrsapplication-developmentflutter
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