Dennis Thompson
Senior Director, Software Engineering at WRITER
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Thompson is a Senior Director of Software Engineering based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience building customer-facing platforms and developer tooling. He has progressed from founder-level front-end work to leading engineering teams at Rivian and WRITER, where he now owns connectors and the MCP platform. Dennis blends product-driven leadership with deep technical craft—streamlining development workflows, launching B2B offerings, and improving CSAT through user-focused app features. He has a strong background in modern front-end ecosystems (React, Webpack) and serverless Python on AWS, and has driven org-wide standards like shared ESLint configs and internal libraries. Known for turning tight deadlines into repeatable processes, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship and cross-functional alignment.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
San Diego State University
English
Stackoverflow
3,046reputation
266kreached
80answers
58questions
travis-ci
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
multiselect10
ui-components10
drag10
npm-link10
api10
html10
skeleton10
nodejs10
css10
buttons10
shuttle10
html-webpack-plugin10
gulp10
stream10
mixins10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
atomicpages/react-docgen-typescript-cli
Dec 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
atomicpages/eslint-config
Jun 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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