Jamison Dance
Head Of Engineering at Soft Skills Engineering Podcast
American Fork, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJamison Dance is a pragmatic Head of Engineering with 16 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently running engineering at Droplet after leading a 40-person organization at Shortcut and high-throughput edge infrastructure teams at Walmart Global Tech. He blends deep technical fluency across distributed systems, Go, TypeScript, and cloud platforms with strong people management—having managed engineering managers for four years—and a knack for clarifying roadmaps, unblocking teams, and growing leaders. Co-founder and long-running co-host of the Soft Skills Engineering podcast (20k monthly listeners), he scales mentorship through storytelling and asynchronous writing as much as through 1:1 coaching. Comfortable toggling between building product features and platform plumbing, Jamison is known for pragmatic architecture decisions and for bringing developer empathy into tooling and process.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Portuguese
Stackoverflow
20,036reputation
2.1mreached
109answers
60questions
recursion
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ruby
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ruby-on-rails
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drupal
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csv
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rspec
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Github Skills (200)
zero-configuration10
classifier10
http-client10
ember10
declarative10
javascript10
developer-tools10
exponential-backoff10
typescript10
angularjs10
nodejs10
documentation10
user-interface10
plugin10
frontend10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
jergason/dotfiles
Feb 2012 - Dec 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
jamiebuilds/babel-react-optimize
Aug 2016 - Jul 2025
:rocket: A Babel preset and plugins for optimizing React code.
Contributions:2 PRs in 9 years
react
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