Dan Partain · Boulder, Colorado
Generalist.
I've never been able to want just one thing. Over twenty years that's meant code and spreadsheets, strategy and execution, the long arc and the small fix. I used to apologize for the range. Now I lead with it.
Never just one job. Programmer, designer, manager, founder, and a different industry almost every time. I'll sketch the ten-year vision and write the front-end that ships on Friday. What holds it together is people: what they need, and what keeps getting in their way.
I can't leave a broken thing alone. Show me something clumsy or neglected and I can't help it. I see the flaw first, the better version a half-second behind, and then I have to go make it real. A checkout that fights you, a logo with bad kerning, a dead domain with huge potential buried inside. The same reflex every time.
Off the clock. I paint, pull prints, build from wood, and bring old tools and cars back to life. Different medium, the same itch.
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