Summary
Justin Dallal is an engineering manager with a decade of experience leading cross-functional teams at enterprise software firms like Adobe and Tableau, with earlier SDET roots at Microsoft and product work at Apple. He specializes in driving large refactors and modernizations—most notably modernizing Tableau’s visual interpreter pipeline and shipping serialization/rehydration and bespoke encoding improvements—while also creating APIs to enhance visualization customization. A hands-on leader, he hires and mentors engineers up to staff/LMTS levels, champions Agile and pair programming, and focuses on using software as a lever to grow individual careers. His background includes shipping a consumer game with 600k+ downloads and holding patents related to Office graphics animation, reflecting a mix of product sensibility, technical depth, and practical delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Science Engineering, BSE, Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan