Jason Dent
Director Of Engineering at Street Side Software
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJason Dent is an experienced software engineer and founder with 11+ years of professional experience building developer tools and resilient distributed systems from Haarlem, Netherlands. As Owner of Street Side Software he created CSpell and the VS Code Spell Checker—projects with hundreds of thousands weekly downloads and over 16 million unique installs—demonstrating a knack for developer-focused open-source impact. He’s led engineering teams at companies including Uber and Valarian, where he transformed a burned-out, globally distributed team into a high-trust organization while delivering a production-grade, zero-trust privileged communications platform. Jason combines deep systems and tooling expertise (notably contributions to Hunspell parsing and CLI tooling) with hands-on productship and operational know-how, able to take security-sensitive platforms from architecture to field demos. He also brings a long history in graphics and mapping systems from early Microsoft work, reflecting a career that spans low-level performance engineering to modern cloud-native and AI-ready architectures.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Studies, Computer Graphics, Graduate Studies, Computer Graphics at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Principia College
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Github Skills (30)
visual-studio-code-extension10
javascript10
typescript10
language-server-protocol10
rxjs10
parsing10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
text-parsing10
text-processing9
act9
go8
php8
command-line-interface8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
streetsidesoftware/vscode-spell-checker
May 2016 - Oct 2016
A simple source code spell checker for code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 138 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of a spell-checking extension for Visual Studio Code. Their work included improving the core spell-checking logic and integrating with dictionaries. They added new features such as code actions for suggestions and user dictionary modification. The user also enhanced the extension's functionality by adding support for additional programming languages and file types, along with incorporating suggestions to improve the user experience.
spellchecker
streetsidesoftware/cspell
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
A Spell Checker for Code!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of the `hunspell-reader` package, focusing on parsing and processing Hunspell dictionaries and affix files. Their work involved refactoring the code for parsing affix files, including the implementation of converters and the introduction of the `trieCompact` functionality, as well as modifications to the `HunspellReader`. They also implemented a command-line interface to output words from a dictionary file and added support for handling different encodings.
spellcheckerspellspell-checker
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