Dennise Bartlett
Founder at Gravelight Studios
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDennise Bartlett is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems, currently leading a stealth startup and serving as Fractional CTO at Gravelight Studios in San Francisco. She combines hands-on engineering—recently heading engineering for the open-source AI coding platform Cline—with strategic leadership that cut engineering costs by 20% in six months and strengthened platform reliability. Her contributions to notable projects like the Sails framework and the Cline IDE agent show a knack for both backend request-routing logic and polished front-end UX features, including hot reloading and custom instruction interfaces. Dennise is comfortable across the stack and at all stages of product lifecycle, from architecting enterprise AI infrastructure to mentoring teams and driving digital transformation. She pairs a practical technical toolkit (Node.js, React/Vue, AWS) with a collaborative leadership style that prioritizes diverse perspectives and measurable outcomes. An early career background in systems support and networking gives her a pragmatic operational lens that informs robust, production-ready engineering decisions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Games and Programming Skills, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Games and Programming Skills at Full Sail UniversityAPS Certification, HP Hardware Support, APS Certification, HP Hardware Support at HP Training AcademyCCNA, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, CCNA, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Cisco Training AcademyLeesville High School
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Github Skills (19)
url-routing10
javascript10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
typescript10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
json9
android-webview8
webview8
pubsub8
haml7
build-automation7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cline/cline
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:271 reviews, 64 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dennise's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and features of the Cline application, integrating core functionality with backend services. They added the ability to resize the VSCode text area for custom instructions, incorporated a mode switch with message sending between plan and act modes, and implemented hot reloading and environment variables for debug builds. The user also addressed a linting issue in the browser session.
balderdashy/sails
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 commits, 2 comments, 4 issues in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dennise contributed to the Sails.js framework by adding and modifying core features related to request handling and routing. Their work focused on implementing functionality for handling JSON requests, including the `req.isJson` flag and modifying the 404 error handling. Furthermore, the user added and debugged an interactive console feature for the Sails framework and added the ability to support HAMl in views. Finally, the user fixed destroy methods for publish/subscribe events.
realtimenode-jsjavascriptframeworknodejs
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