Tynan Dean is an experienced production and workflow specialist with over a decade modernising print and publishing operations, from prepress to large-scale exam paper production. He combines hands-on team leadership with practical scripting skills (AppleScript, JavaScript, VBA, PHP, MySQL) to automate processes, having driven multi-hundred-percent productivity gains and drastically reduced errors through bespoke digital workflows. Comfortable liaising with national and international suppliers and stakeholders, he builds interactive tracking tools and reporting sites that bring data transparency to complex schedules. More recently he contributes to open-source front-end and documentation work on notable projects like Kedro and Kedro-Viz, applying UI and doc improvements to data-science tooling. Based in London, he brings a rare mix of print-production craft, systems thinking, and full-stack automation experience.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Colchester Royal Grammar School
B.Sc, Mechanical Engineering, B.Sc, Mechanical Engineering at Bradford University
Visualise your Kedro data and machine-learning pipelines and track your experiments.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:31 releases, 631 reviews, 128 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tynan primarily contributed to the front-end of the `kedro-viz` project. Their work involved fixing URI parameter parsing, updating the prettier command and configurations, modifying UI components like node-list, metadata, flowchart, and export modal, and refactoring the search bar component. The contributions show a focus on improving the visualization's user interface and resolving related bugs. Several commits include updating and migrating front-end components, indicating a strong understanding of the React-based codebase.
Kedro is a toolbox for production-ready data science. It uses software engineering best practices to help you create data engineering and data science pipelines that are reproducible, maintainable, and modular.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:60 reviews, 5 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Tynan primarily contributed to the documentation of the Kedro project. Their work involved updating and improving documentation files, specifically focusing on the Kedro-Viz experiment tracking feature, and making adjustments to the documentation's style, including font family and image paths. They also addressed visual aspects of the documentation by fixing font sizes and ensuring section titles were visible in the URLs.
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