Dario Sanchez

Senior full-stack software engineer and designer with 8 years of experience, most of it as the lead design authority on lean teams (3-6 engineers). Physics B.A. from UCLA.

I'm most interested in user experience, software quality, and design. It is easy to make software and fancy demos these days, but it remains a challenge to make real software that real clients feel good about using. There is still a lot of work for engineers and designers to do, and this is where I focus my efforts.

In my spare time I enjoy many hobbies such as programming, design, drones, chess, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, improv comedy, physics projects (built a Tesla coil and an X-ray machine with friends), skydiving, traveling, woodworking, and many other things.

Experience

Jan 2023 - Present

Major, Lindsey & Africa

Senior Software Engineer

  • Continuing as the lead frontend, UX, and design authority following MLA's acquisition of Hire an Esquire; now ship and maintain two legal recruiting platforms across the stack.
  • Highest GitHub contributor in the project's entire history. Spearheaded multiple major code refactors and modernization initiatives.
  • Mentored two additional engineers onto the frontend post-acquisition; interviewed new candidates.

Aug 2018 - Dec 2022

Hire an Esquire(acquired)

Senior Software Engineer & Designer

  • Main frontend and sole design authority on a 3–4 person engineering/product team. Built most of the frontend myself from the ground up; worked directly with leadership on technical and product direction.
  • Proposed and led TypeScript adoption across the entire codebase, shifting the team from constant bug-firefighting to consistent feature delivery.
  • Proposed and led a massive migration to RTK Query, replacing an ad-hoc data-fetching layer that had become a bottleneck.
  • Took primary responsibility for mentoring two engineers on the frontend; they are now senior engineers at MLA.

Skills

I keep up with the latest in the industry.

  • UX/Design
  • TypeScript
  • React (+Native)
  • Svelte
  • CSS/Tailwind
  • Animation/Motion
  • Redux
  • Next
  • Vite
  • Performance
  • Data Viz
  • Data Analysis
  • Python
  • Django
  • Postgres
  • CI/CD
  • CLI
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Vercel

Projects

UXSpice

UXSpice

A circuit simulator built with Svelte, WebGPU, and ngspice (compiled to WebAssembly). A work in progress (will eventually open source). My goal is to raise the bar for speed, design, and overall user experience for such tools, which are famously cumbersome. Svelte compiles away, WebGPU draws straight to the GPU, and ngspice runs in a Web Worker. I've built the UI library from scratch so I can optimize it just for this project. No tradeoffs between speed and design are necessary.

WebGPU • WGSL • Svelte • TypeScript • Tailwind

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Physics, Bachelor of Arts (2014 - 2017)

Broad education in Physics, Philosophy, Mathematics, Computer Science, and many other subjects in science and the humanities.

Art & Photography

Tools That Inspire Me

  • Linear

    For treating design, speed, and details like keyboard navigation as core features.

  • Base UI

    The cleanest take on headless components that currently exists, in my opinion.

  • U.S. Graphics

    For taking the opposite aesthetic position from Linear and being just as right about it.

  • Paper

    For daring to raise the bar on design tools in a market most people consider settled.

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