Summary
Landon Durnan is a senior engineering manager with over 14 years of hands-on front-end experience and more than eight years in leadership, currently leading engineering efforts at Salesforce on the Slack team. He specializes in UI/UX and design systems, having built and scaled component libraries that standardized product experiences across Square, Weebly, and Weebly-born Weebly-to-Square integrations. Known for turning customer-facing design challenges into pragmatic engineering roadmaps, he has repeatedly reduced duplication of effort and shortened feedback loops through documentation, tooling, and cross-team collaboration. His background spans startups and enterprises—from founding a content-driven audio site that drove strong monthly growth to shaping internal frameworks at Apple—demonstrating both product instincts and operational rigor. Landon combines technical depth in modern front-end stacks with a knack for hiring, interviewing, and developing engineering teams. Colleagues rely on him to translate UX vision into workable, long-term architectures that enable direct business impact.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Information Sciences and Technology Web Development, Information Sciences and Technology Web Development at Penn State University