Daine Mawer
Staff Engineer, Web Applications
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDaine Mawer is a Staff Web Applications engineer with 11+ years building high-performance, accessible front-end platforms using React, TypeScript, and Next.js, currently leading web performance and architecture at Fueled after a long tenure at 10up. He founded 10up’s Web Performance Specialist role and drove measurable gains—smaller bundles, faster loads, and a 60% drop in runtime errors through TypeScript migrations—while delivering enterprise rebuilds for publishers like The Boston Globe and HELLO Magazine. Daine blends hands-on engineering with coaching and process leadership, authoring component library and TailwindCSS best practices, CI/CD standards, and performance playbooks that scaled across teams. He’s also an early advocate for AI-assisted engineering workflows and has operationalized AdTech integrations to balance revenue with Core Web Vitals. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he brings a designer’s sensibility from a BA in Creative Brand Communications, which helps him streamline design–engineering handoffs and improve product delivery accuracy.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA in Creative Brand Communications Design and Visual Communications General, BA in Creative Brand Communications Design and Visual Communications General at Vega School
English
Github Skills (9)
react7
javascript7
backbonejs5
plugin5
scaffold4
wordpress-plugin3
go2
wordpress2
gutenberg1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dainelmawer/wordcamp-gutenberg
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 11 days
dainemawer/github-gutenberg-block
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 13 days
wordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginindex
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