Lee Dohm
Engineering Manager
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarLee Dohm is an Engineering Manager with 12 years of hands-on software development and open-source community leadership, based in Kirkland, WA. He blends full-stack engineering, front-end UX refinement, and back-end test automation—contributing notable work to high-profile projects like GitHub Desktop and Atom, and extending the popular probot framework with event-filtering plugins and robust tests. As a former Open Source Community Manager at GitHub, he pairs product-focused technical contributions with strong documentation and developer experience improvements, from Markdown-aware settings panels to platform-aware docs. Colleagues rely on him for practical refactors, cross-platform error handling, and thoughtful UX warnings that reduce user friction. Off the clock he’s a self-described gamer, movie buff, and dad, which shows in his pragmatic, human-centered approach to tooling and community.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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powershell
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regex
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python
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Github Skills (44)
atom-editor10
markdown10
editors10
git10
javascript10
coffeescript10
electron10
testing10
typescript10
github-desktop10
ui-design10
editor10
markdown-it10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
atom/flight-manual.atom.io
Mar 2015 - Jul 2019
📖 Documentation for Atom, generated by nanoc, hosted by GitHub Pages
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:394 commits, 197 PRs, 188 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lee's primary focus was enhancing the documentation for Atom's flight manual. Contributions included adding auto-anchoring for Markdown headers, implementing a platform switcher, and structuring the content into chapters and appendices. Furthermore, the user fixed a broken favicon, updated the Code of Conduct link, and added content to the FAQ section.
nanochostedatomflight-manual
atom/tree-view
May 2015 - Sep 2018
🌳 Explore and open project files in Atom
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 28 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lee primarily contributed to the `tree-view` component of the Atom editor. Their work involved refactoring code by renaming functions and adapting the file-view to use a file icons service. They implemented a default file icons provider and added functionality to set and reset the file icons service, enabling customization. Additionally, the user improved error handling for trash operations on different operating systems and improved the contextual menu behavior for multiple item selection and drag and drop operations.
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