Dennis Hotson
Engineering Manager at Influx
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Hotson is an engineering manager based in Melbourne with 16 years of experience leading teams and shipping web-scale products across companies like Influx, Culture Amp and 99designs. He blends hands-on engineering chops—shown by front-end contributions to projects such as a performant force-directed graph library—with leadership in technical delivery and team development. His background spans full-stack problem solving, performance optimization and UI polish, and he has a track record of turning subtle bugs and animation issues into smoother, more maintainable user experiences. Comfortable scaling teams and systems, he pairs a software engineering degree from RMIT with a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to product quality and developer productivity.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (Software Engineering), Bachelor of Applied Science (Software Engineering) at RMIT University
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
front-end-development10
animation10
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dhotson/springy
Jun 2011 - Mar 2018
A force directed graph layout algorithm in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily focused on improving the user interface and animation aspects of the force-directed graph visualization. They addressed a bug in a core function, implemented smoother animation using `requestAnimFrame`, and optimized performance by caching text width calculations. Furthermore, the user made minor improvements to code structure and whitespace, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the visual and performance characteristics of the springy graph library.
force-directedjavascriptlayoutlayout-algorithmforce-directed-graph
dhotson/coffeescript-jedit
Jan 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 2 years 2 months
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