Dean Malmgren
Chief Technology Officer at Planet FWD
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Malmgren is a technology executive and founder with 15+ years building data-driven products and teams, currently serving as CTO at Planet FWD. He co-founded Datascope, grew its human-centered data science practice into a global capability through acquisition by IDEO, and has led multi-million dollar engagements across healthcare, CPG, finance and more. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and strategy, Dean has maintained and contributed to notable open-source projects—from document extraction tools like textract to performance and DevOps utilities—highlighting a pragmatic focus on reliable tooling and reproducible analysis. He’s launched startups (Elemetric), advised academic and training programs, and recently led IDEO initiatives on sustainability and market intelligence, blending technical rigor with product and organizational judgment. Based in Chicago and trained as a PhD chemical engineer and mathematician, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to shipping usable AI systems. Outside work he balances parenthood, DIY projects and endurance sports, a reminder that his operational discipline extends beyond the office.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Chemical Engineering, BSE Chemical Engineering at University of MichiganPhD Chemical and Biological Engineering, PhD Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
3,197reputation
281kreached
29answers
41questions
scrapy
top-5%
Github Skills (47)
puppeteer10
javascript10
python10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
loadtest10
css10
fad10
supervisord10
csv-parser10
elasticsearchquery10
sup10
performance-analysis10
front-end-development10
aws-elasticsearch10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
deanmalmgren/textract
Jul 2014 - Mar 2022
extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 346 commits, 56 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dean contributed significantly to the core functionality of the textract project. They were responsible for setting up the initial project structure and enabling autocomplete functionality. They implemented support for multiple file types including doc, pdf, epub, and more, demonstrating a focus on expanding the project's capabilities. In addition, they were in charge of the test suite and testing infrastructure.
nlppythonextract-textdata-miningtext-mining
caged/d3-tip
Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
d3 tooltips
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dean primarily focused on enhancing the visual aspects and functionality of the d3-tip library. They updated arrow styles, incorporating a working example and migrating styles to a separate CSS file for better organization and reusability. The user also addressed a pointer-events issue and made minor adjustments, such as renaming the CSS file and ensuring consistent styling across examples.
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