Dean Mao
Principal Engineer at Reputation.com
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Mao is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience building web, mobile, and backend systems from startup prototypes to production platforms. Based in Mountain View, he excels across languages—Ruby, Node, Python, Java, Objective-C and occasional C++—and frequently ships full-stack products that prioritize end-user experience. He co-founded and exited a privacy-focused web startup to Reputation.com and now drives architecture and delivery there, blending entrepreneurial grit with enterprise-scale engineering. Dean has a history of building complex systems—shopping platforms with double-entry accounting, trading systems, and proxy-based collaborative shopping—and has led small engineering teams as both CTO and engineering manager. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved node-sass with color features, callbacks and prebuilt binaries to simplify cross-platform builds. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he moves fluidly between rapid prototyping and stabilizing long-lived services.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
sass10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
libsass10
nodejs9
build-system8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sass/node-sass
Jun 2012 - Jan 2014
:rainbow: Node.js bindings to libsass
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dean primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the node-sass library. Their contributions included adding support for callbacks, implementing new features related to color manipulation, and refactoring code. They also worked on incorporating precompiled binaries for different operating systems, improving build processes, and addressing compilation issues.
libsasssassnode-jsjavascriptrainbow
deanmao/node-hubbub
Oct 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:43 commits in 5 months
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