Jason Dorweiler
Lead Privacy Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJason Dorweiler is a Lead Privacy Engineer with 12 years of technical experience who combines a strong chemistry research background with hands-on software engineering and privacy-first product work at DuckDuckGo. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he has driven UI and backend improvements for widely used open-source projects—most notably contributing front-end refinements to the popular DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension and backend parsers and integrations for DuckDuckGo instant answers. His work spans improving user-facing privacy UX, file-finding and data-parsing tooling, and API-driven instant-answer features, showing comfort across full-stack tasks. Jason’s unusual path from organic and analytical chemistry into computer science and privacy engineering gives him a pragmatic, data-driven approach to solving complex problems and shipping reliable, user-centered privacy features.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry at University of Minnesota-Duluth
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Github Skills (27)
duckduckgo10
javascript10
scripting10
browser-extension10
ui-design10
perl10
uid10
front-end-development10
file-handling10
instantsearch10
handlebars9
json9
github9
apidoc9
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 92 reviews, 391 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the browser extension, focusing on creating and modifying UI templates. Their work involved refactoring and implementing new UI elements for displaying blocked trackers, and integrating features like TOSDR (Terms of Service; Didn't Read) messages. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the user experience and providing more informative feedback within the extension's interface.
firefoxbrowserprivacyduckduckgochrome
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on keyword data files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 86 PRs, 89 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily worked on developing parsers for the Perl documentation, fetching and parsing data from perldoc.perl.org. Their commits involved adding new parsers for different categories like internals, utilities, pragmas, language, and functions. They also refactored and combined existing parsers. The user also included some work in fetching the data.
pythonjavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersruby
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