Dane Thurber
Founding Engineer at Matterbeam
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDane Thurber is a founding engineer and full-stack developer with over a decade of experience building products from UI components to data pipelines. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he has led platform and UI initiatives at Pluralsight and helped early-stage startups ship real-time social and SaaS systems using React, Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, MongoDB and Redis. Dane brings hands-on leadership—creating developer tooling, design systems, and training to accelerate product velocity—while also contributing to open-source tooling such as enhancements to a popular webpack manifest plugin that added CSS and image asset support and flexible path options. His background in design and creative direction informs a pragmatic approach to developer experience and product polish that few engineers balance as effectively.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Art, Visual Art at Salt Lake Community CollegeWasatch High SchoolVisual Arts, Visual Arts at Dixie State College
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
webpack10
plugin10
webpacker10
nodejs10
css9
configuration-management9
configuration-file9
configurations9
file-handling9
testing8
border6
html6
angularjs6
jquery6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shellscape/webpack-manifest-plugin
Mar 2015 - Sep 2020
webpack plugin for generating asset manifests
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 16 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dane primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the webpack-manifest-plugin, focusing on features and improvements. They added functionality to the plugin to support CSS assets and image file types. Furthermore, the user implemented options such as `stripSrc` and `publicPath`, increasing flexibility and utility. These changes reflect a focus on expanding the plugin's capabilities and integration with other tools and processes.
webpack-pluginwebpack3manifesthtml-webpack-pluginplugin
silen6/silen6.com-old
May 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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