Hi, I’m Dave!

My name is Dave Gillhespy. I am a Software Development Manager at Amazon, but my title doesn't really matter. What matters is that I absolutely love design systems, web performance, and leading people and strategy. It's way more than just a job for me. I am enamored by responsive design, accessibility, and user experience. I dabble in javascript and try to be a designer, but HTML and CSS are my true loves.

Outside of work, I love music and I love film.

Projects I'm Proud Of

• Spark Design System – Where we collect our best solutions for how to design and build unified digital experiences for the Rocket brands.
• Scales – A design-free, modular collection of OOCSS patterns, framework settings, and utilities for quickly building responsive web projects. This project was absorbed into Spark Design System and has been deprecated.
• MyQL.com – A mobile-first, responsive, mortgage origination web app. Launched in February 2012. As far as I know, the first of its kind. This project is now Rocket Mortgage and has been redesigned and rebuilt.
• Stellar – A live music photography and review site that I built and wrote reviews for.

Tools of the Trade

The most important tools that I use are Responsive Design, Sass, JavaScript (with some React and Angular). Additionally, I never stop fighting for the old standbys: user experience, accessibility, performance, and semantic markup.

Where to Find Me

Just look for yodasw16 in all the coolest places. You can start with these:

• twitter
• github
• dribbble
• email

Where I've Been

• Amazon (November 2021 – present)
• Rocket Mortgage (July 2009 – October 2021)
• Miller Media (October 2008 – June 2009)
• Detroit Public TV (January 2006 – April 2008)