Dylan Babbs
Co-Founder, CTO at South Park Commons
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDylan Babbs is a product-minded engineering leader and Co-Founder/CTO based in New York with nine years of experience building maps, data visualization, and front-end systems. He currently leads technology at Profound, an AI search startup backed by Khosla Ventures and others, and is a Founder Fellow at South Park Commons. Previously he was a Senior Design Engineer on Uber Maps, shipping production geospatial features and developer-facing tooling. An active open-source contributor, he improved React components in Uber’s widely used baseweb library—adding map marker variants, TypeScript definitions, styling tweaks, and richer documentation. With a BS in Informatics from the University of Washington, he blends product design sensibility with pragmatic engineering to make complex spatial data accessible and usable.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Informatics, Bachelor of Science Informatics at University of Washington
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Github Skills (8)
component-library10
styled-components10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
system9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uber/baseweb
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
A React Component library implementing the Base design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 77 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of React components within the `baseweb` repository. They focused on adding new features like map markers, including different sizes and anchor types, and incorporating label and badge enhancers. Their commits involved modifications to styling using styled-components, and the creation of example scenarios demonstrating the usage of the new components. Furthermore, the user addressed flow errors, provided typescript definitions, and worked on the documentation to add more details about new features.
react-componentreactlanguage-designreact-component-librarydesign-system
dbabbs/babbs
Jan 2019 - May 2021
🚀 Personal website (dylan babbs.com)
Contributions:6 PRs, 75 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
nextjstailwindcssdylan
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