Dean Tambling
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDean Tambling is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 12 years of experience building web products and shipping at scale. Currently at GitHub, he progressed through increasingly responsible engineering roles focused on high-impact delivery and operational reliability. His background spans e-commerce and health-tech, having built customer-facing sites at Everlane and clinical tools at Akido Labs, and he also taught web development, reflecting a knack for making complex ideas accessible. A former middle-school science teacher with a BA in Film/History/Multimedia from UCSB, he brings unusual communication strengths and a practical, design-minded approach to engineering. Known for pragmatic code and a dry sense of humor, he balances deep hands-on work with system-level thinking and team mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Intensive, Web Development Intensive at Dev BootcampBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies, History, Multimedia Communications, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies, History, Multimedia Communications at University of California, Santa Barbara
English
Stackoverflow
21reputation
9kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (46)
migration10
gh-extension10
cli10
react9
material-ui8
react-components8
javascript7
neovim7
icu7
vim7
tmux7
html-webpack-plugin7
html6
zsh6
loader6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tambling/kandr
Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
tambling/mdast-minimum-heading
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Transform mdast to nest all headings below a certain level
Contributions:86 PRs, 10 pushes, 30 branches in 2 months
headingsmdastnesttransform
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