Shalanah Dawson
Software Engineer at Livefront
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolShalanah Dawson is a frontend-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building interactive editors and tools that turn creative ideas—photo albums, educational manipulatives, and solar-panel layout planners—into delightful user experiences. She combines a designer’s eye with engineering rigor, shipping production React/TypeScript interfaces and SVG/canvas-heavy interactions while also contributing backend glue with Node, Python, AWS, Firebase Functions, and MongoDB. As founder of Shalanah LLC and a former senior engineer at Scanifly and Amplify, she’s driven migrations from legacy stacks to component-driven React ecosystems and integrated Storybook, testing, and export formats like DXF. Based in Saint Paul, MN, she’s comfortable leading small teams, prototyping complex UI behaviors, and speaking about front-end craft—an engineer who still enjoys hand-coding SVGs and teaching how CSS methodologies evolved.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Math Ed. 5-12 Art Ed. K-12 Physics Minor, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Math Ed. 5-12 Art Ed. K-12 Physics Minor at Bethel University
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (148)
scroll10
css-in-js10
drag10
textarea10
styled-components10
firefox-addon10
react-three-fiber10
visual-studio10
declarative10
vanilla-javascript10
javascript10
pinch10
browser10
editor10
gestures10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shalanah/mds
Jun 2019 - Feb 2025
Midway Driving School - Static site created with Gatsby
Contributions:9 PRs, 63 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 9 months
gatsbyreactstatic-sitemidwaygatsbyjs
shalanah/ios404
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
The missing web features of iOS (using caniuse data)
Contributions:15 PRs, 118 pushes, 17 branches in 10 months
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