George Dean
Software Engineer, Creation Engine
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Dean is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of professional experience and a track record of delivering systems used by tens of millions of users across 29 companies. Currently building creation workflows at Figma, he brings deep expertise in pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous delivery honed over 11 years of close collaboration with 150+ engineers. He has led cross-functional teams to replatform large products to Kubernetes, build high-throughput Kafka Streams pipelines, and extract low-latency microservices while instituting safer, strongly typed frontends and CI safeguards. A pragmatic believer in explicit data contracts, event-sourcing patterns, and colocated ownership, he focuses on reducing accidental complexity and technical debt so teams can respond to change immediately. Trained at Carnegie Mellon and fluent across at least 10 languages, he pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on engineering—his background even spans audio programming and geospatial C++ visualization, revealing a curiosity that fuels diverse technical impact.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Baskin Engineering at UCSCM.S. Software Engineering, M.S. Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github contributions (5)
gdean725706/AudioManipulator
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 release, 95 commits, 1 push in 11 months
gdean725706/MultiSequencer-Unity
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:56 commits, 1 push in 10 months
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