Lowell Bander
Director at Ridgeline Collaborative
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLowell Bander is a Seattle-based Director and software leader with 12 years of experience building full-stack tools that address climate resilience and community needs. He currently leads Ridgeline Collaborative, developing systems to help Cascadia understand complex regional dynamics, while advising and having founded Seattle’s 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub. Lowell blends hands-on engineering (React, TypeScript, Python, backend systems) with community organizing—he’s launched climate events, co-founded coalitions like Seattle Climate Tech and Gigaton Collective, and mobilized grassroots relief efforts. His background at companies from Facebook to Lumen honed product-first engineering, cross-functional leadership, and zero-to-one energy products like AutoPPA. Notably, he moves between building software and creating the social containers that let solutions scale, preferring to identify gaps, convene people, then step back to let communities own the next phase. He pairs technical depth from a UCLA CS degree with a demonstrated talent for turning civic ambition into operational programs.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Venice Senior High SchoolUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, c, c++, c#, javascript, html, python
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Github Skills (51)
react8
elevation8
android8
event-emitter8
ios8
react-native8
jsinterop7
cross-platform7
browserify7
js-client6
spotify6
mobile6
django-apps6
api6
delicious6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lowellbander/lowellbander.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
dandelion-community/dandelion
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Support community aid workers in doing community aid work!
Contributions:2 releases, 101 reviews, 100 PRs in 2 months
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