Sloan Sparger
Software Engineer at Metabase
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSloan Sparger is a full‑stack software engineer based in Austin with 11 years of professional experience and eight years focused on shipping feature-rich web applications. He combines a strong interest in performance with hands-on work across client, server, and database layers—most notably cutting a core geo-query p95 from 2.5s to 150ms at Shef. Sloan has led architecture shifts that changed product paradigms (enabling multi-chef ordering) and built multilingual, high‑scale services (a Bible API serving over a million daily requests). An active front-end contributor to the popular Metabase open-source BI project, he has improved UX, localization, and admin tooling for analytics users. His background in philosophy and religious studies informs a pragmatic, user-centric approach to complex technical tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Philosophy and Religious Studies, Bachelor's degree Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of North Texas
English
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Github Skills (20)
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
javascript9
dashboard9
collections8
localization8
visualizations7
visualization7
meteor6
angularjs6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:551 reviews, 303 PRs, 902 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sloan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Metabase project. Their work included localizing text for filter apply buttons, fixing external landing page URLs to prevent user lockouts, and truncating tooltip content for large descriptions in various UI components. They also implemented improvements to the admin logs page, updated the UI for navbar elements, and addressed bugs related to the command palette and dashboard-question flow.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
sloansparger/bear
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Unofficial CLI for the Bear notes app (MacOS only)
Contributions:3 releases, 55 commits, 46 pushes in 28 days
notesmacos-appbearnotes-appmacos
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