Waseem Dahman
Design Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWaseem Dahman is a design engineer with 11 years of experience building user-focused front-end systems, currently shaping product interfaces at Microsoft from his base in Seattle. He progressed from UI design and frontend roles at startups and academia into senior engineering positions, blending visual design instincts with robust engineering practices. Known for improving developer experience, he contributes to high-profile TypeScript typing efforts in the DefinitelyTyped repo—helping ensure safer, clearer typings for libraries like Jest. A strong academic performer in Informatics/Computer Science (3.8 GPA), Waseem brings a practical, cross-disciplinary approach that unites design sensitivity with maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics/Computer Science, 3.8, Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics/Computer Science, 3.8 at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
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Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 42 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Waseem primarily contributed to the `definitelytyped/definitelytyped` repository by adding and modifying type definitions for JavaScript libraries, particularly focusing on the `jest` and `global-npm` libraries. Their work involved augmenting existing types, adding new properties, and ensuring the correct typing of methods and interfaces. These changes focused on improving the type safety and developer experience for users of these libraries within TypeScript projects.
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wsmd/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Contributions:15 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
compilationtype-definitionshigh-qualitydefinitionstypescript
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