About Dane

Dane Hillard is a software engineer and web developer interested in education, biotechnology, and open source.

Dane has a B.S.E. in computer engineering with a minor in mathematics from the University of Michigan. As a software engineer, Dane has worked on intelligence research and development at SAIC (now Leidos) and personalized cancer genomics at Compendia Bioscience (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific). As a technical architect at ITHAKA, his focus is mainly on web development in Python, Django, and front-end technologies to enable academic research.

Portrait of Dane Hillard

Projects

I like to make things. Some of the projects below were for school or work, but I chose to make them because they were fun and challenging. Go build something!

  • The colored orb logo for Pharos, JSTOR's design system
    Pharos

    Pharos is JSTOR's design system. It contains our design decisions, a component library, a Storybook playground, and more.

  • pixelize project screenshot
    pixelize

    pixelize is a tool to make glitch art from source images.

  • Screenshot of apiron GitHub page
    apiron

    apiron is a Python library for building RESTful API clients. We built this at ITHAKA to speed up development and interact with our internal services more consistently.

  • Screenshot of the Mondrian collection on CodePen
    Mondrian

    A collection of Mondrian works recreated in CSS Grid

  • Guitar
    ToneShift

    Our 2007 senior design project at the University of Michigan to build a pitch-shifting device for electric guitars. For contemporary work in this area see Guitar Pitch Shifter or Alan Pagliere's work on lap steel guitar tunings.