Dario Sanchez

Senior full-stack software engineer and designer with 8 years of experience, most of it as the lead UX and design authority on lean teams of three to six engineers. Physics B.A. from UCLA.

I'm interested in user experience and design in a broad sense that accounts for things like performance and general software quality.

Outside of work, I sometimes fly drones, play chess, train Brazilian jiu-jitsu, do improv comedy, skydive, travel, woodwork, and build physics projects with friends (like a Tesla coil and an X-ray machine).

Experience

Jan 2023 – Present

Major, Lindsey & Africa

Senior Software Engineer

  • Lead frontend, UX, and design authority following MLA's acquisition of Hire an Esquire. Ship and maintain two legal recruiting platforms across the full stack.
  • Top GitHub contributor in the project's history. Spearheaded several major refactors and modernization initiatives.
  • Onboarded and mentored two more frontend engineers after the acquisition; interviewed engineering candidates.

Aug 2018 – Dec 2022

Hire an Esquire(acquired)

Senior Software Engineer & Designer

  • Main frontend engineer and sole design authority on a 3–4 person engineering and product team. Built most of the frontend from the ground up and 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.
  • Led a large migration to RTK Query, replacing an ad-hoc data-fetching layer that had become a bottleneck.
  • Primary mentor for two frontend engineers, both now senior at MLA.

Skills

I keep up with the latest in the industry.

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

Projects

UXSpice

UXSpice

A new circuit simulator. Work in progress. Circuit simulators are famously cumbersome, and my goal is to raise the bar for speed, design, and overall user experience without trading one for another. Built with Svelte, WebGPU, and ngspice compiled to WASM. Svelte compiles away, WebGPU draws straight to the GPU, and ngspice runs in a Web Worker. I built the UI library from scratch so it's tuned for exactly this project. Eventually I plan to open-source it.

WebGPU • WGSL • Svelte • TypeScript • Tailwind

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Physics, Bachelor of Arts, 2014 – 2017

A broad education in physics, philosophy, mathematics, and computer science, across both the sciences and the humanities.

Art & Photography

Tools That Inspire Me

  • Linear

    For treating design, speed, and UX details as core features.

  • Base UI

    For being the best take on headless components that currently exists.

  • U.S. Graphics

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

  • Paper

    For raising the bar on design tools in a market most consider settled.

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