John Dance
Principal Engineer at Qualcomm
Midway, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Dance is a Principal Engineer with decades of experience designing developer tools, application frameworks, and system runtimes, currently at Qualcomm after a long tenure leading platform and tooling efforts at Tableau. He’s a software generalist comfortable from UX to compiler/linker internals, with deep expertise in C++, Java, API and object-oriented design, and a track record of improving developer productivity and enabling non-programmers to build applications. His open-source contributions include front-end and TypeScript work for the popular Tableau Extensions API samples, reflecting a hands-on approach to both docs and integration. Based in Midway, Utah, he pairs product-minded engineering with system-level craftsmanship and a penchant for anticipating where the puck is going.
8 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
filter9
filtering9
react8
css7
documentation5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tableau/extensions-api
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Extensions API sample code and developer docs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 89 reviews, 47 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the front-end code of the Tableau Extensions API. They focused on fixing filter examples, updating TypeScript compiler versions, and modifying JavaScript code. The user also made changes to CSS and documentation, indicating involvement in the overall presentation and functionality of the sample extensions. Additionally, the user participated in merging branches, suggesting a role in integrating code changes.
rest-apiapiextensionsapi-sample
johnDance/hello-world
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
cssjavascript
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