John Dunning
Product Lead at City and County of San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Dunning is a product leader and former designer-engineer with 11 years of experience shaping large-scale consumer and civic products from San Francisco. He currently leads the team building DAHLIA, San Francisco’s affordable housing platform, and previously ran product for Yahoo Mail where he migrated millions of users to a new tech stack while meeting revenue targets. Comfortable toggling between strategy, UX design, and hands-on prototyping, he has shipped interaction-heavy clients, internal tooling, and patent-pending production tools at Pixar. He leans on data-driven decision making—A/B tests, usability studies, and detailed analytics—to validate features and reduce risk. Known for bringing cross-functional teams together across time zones, he blends deep technical fluency (JavaScript, Node, React) with long experience in complex user workflows and enterprise-grade releases.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics at Princeton UniversityGithub contributions (5)
johndunning/JavaFXDrools
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 13 days
johndunning/pronapse-ui
May 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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