Dorian Scheidt
Staff Software Engineer at Webflow
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDorian Scheidt is a product-focused Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 12 years of hands-on experience building high-performance, full‑stack web and mobile experiences. Self-taught from a non‑traditional background, he combines pragmatic product sense with deep engineering craft—shipping client-side in TypeScript/React, server-side services in Kotlin/Java, and performance-sensitive data engines in C++. At Tableau he led cross-team efforts on interactive visualization and in-memory data engines; at Webflow he now drives product and technical leadership. He’s an active contributor to rust-analyzer, improving the Extract Function assist to handle generics and tricky trait cases—an indication of his attention to correctness across languages. Known as a clear, direct collaborator and coach, he focuses on building high-trust teams and tooling that help people solve hard problems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Electroacoustics, Electroacoustics at Concordia UniversityMusic Technology, Music Technology at McGill University
Github Skills (10)
ide10
language-server10
rust-analyzer10
develop10
rust10
language-server-protocol10
algorithms8
algorithm8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 10 PRs, 39 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dorian primarily contributed to the `rust-analyzer` project by addressing issues related to the "Extract Function" assist feature, a key component of the Rust language server. Their commits focused on fixing bugs, such as handling duplicate function names and addressing issues within trait implementations. They also improved the assist by supporting generics and refining variable name suggestions. The user's work is focused on improving the functionality and correctness of the Rust language front-end.
rustlsp-servercompileridefront-end
DorianListens/rust-analyzer
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
Contributions:57 pushes, 14 branches in 2 months
rustcompilerfront-endrust-compilerrust-lang
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.