Dave Fearon
Engineering Manager at Slack
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDave Fearon is an experienced engineering manager based in Ottawa with 12 years in software and a decades-long history as an independent contractor, blending hands-on coding with team leadership. At Slack he progressed from frontend engineer to senior engineer and now leads engineering efforts, bringing deep product-facing frontend expertise from prior roles at Flickr and Jetpac. He’s comfortable across the stack—front-end, serverside, data parsing, and tooling—and has a track record of shipping polished, standards-compliant user experiences alongside scalable backends. Dave’s background in interactive multimedia and long-running self-employment suggests a pragmatic, client-focused approach and an ability to adapt quickly to new domains and constraints.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeBachelor of Information Technology, Interactive Multimedia and Design, Bachelor of Information Technology, Interactive Multimedia and Design at Carleton University
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (2)
media-queries6
css6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jetpacapp/Jetpac-Deep-Belief-Demo-App
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
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