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Dan 🌱

Dan 🌱

web developer, engineering manager

Engineering Manager, Apps team at Alethea

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Experienced full-stack software engineer, tech lead, and manager, specializing in user interface design and development for the Web.

Likes cats, ultimate frisbee, and crossword puzzles; allergic to the rockstar ninja developer mindset and crypto or blockchain anything.

I use AI as little as possible.

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Career: 11

Engineering Manager, Apps team

Alethea

Oct 2023 - Present

Scaled up a team of 2 frontend developers to a team of 7 frontend, full-stack, and backend developers and testers, remote across multiple timezones, in addition to delivering code as an individual contributor (see below). Responsibilities: holding regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports; conducting annual performance reviews and salary adjustments; aiding project managers in staffing projects with dev resources; coordinating weekly product releases; creating documents and processes to increase individual and team velocity and code quality

Principal Software Engineer - Front End Lead

Alethea

Feb 2022 - Present

Responsibilities: selecting frontend tools and technologies for use in, and designing frontend architecture of, a greenfield SaaS application; creating a mechanism to define, share, and codegen data contracts between frontend, API, and other services; designing, developing, testing, and maintaining critical user-facing features; maintaining developer toolchain for frontend unit, integration, end-to-end, and visual-regression tests; creating, tracking, and managing frontend tasks via Jira tickets; mentoring junior engineers; sourcing and interviewing candidates for open Alethea engineering positions Skills: TypeScript; React; SWR; GraphQL; CSS-in-JS; codegen; Playwright; Docker; nginx; Python; Postgres

Staff Engineer

Pill Club

Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

Responsibilities: Designing and developing a video-based telemedicine platform for use by Pill Club subscribers and medical staff; migrating new-patient onboarding experience to React from Angular; re-architecting frontend codebase to support code re-use between web and mobile apps; mentoring junior engineers; sourcing and interviewing candidates for open Pill Club engineering positions Skills: React; TypeScript; Gatsby; Jest; Cypress

Dad

Coronavirus Downsizing Casualties Ltd

Mar 2020 - Aug 2020

Managing a team of 1 infant Responsibilities: sourcing, application, and disposal of diapers; creating, providing, and cleaning bottles of formula; cooking and cleaning for other household members Skills: bottles, mops and brooms, cookbooks, Netflix

Lead Frontend Developer

Wanderu, Inc

Sep 2018 - Mar 2020

Managing a team of 5 other frontend developers, both local and remote across multiple timezones, in addition to delivering code as an individual contributor (see below) Responsibilities: holding regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports; conducting bi-annual performance reviews and annual salary adjustments; aiding project managers in staffing projects with frontend dev resources; sourcing, pre-screening, and interviewing candidates for open Wanderu engineering and management positions

Senior Frontend Developer

Wanderu, Inc

Apr 2017 - Mar 2020

Responsibilities: leading migration of Wanderu frontend codebase to React+Redux+Webpack from Backbone+jQuery+Grunt; leading architecture and development of new customer-facing webapps in React+Redux; contributing to backend platform services as feature schedules require; mentoring junior engineers; participating in production-environment on-call rotation; architecting and building a set of React components for use in Wanderu email marketing campaigns and event-based emails Skills: Javascript (ES6, ES7, ES8), Webpack 4, node.js, React, Redux, jest, CSS (SCSS, CSS modules), server-side rendering, Jenkins, Docker; Braze

Senior UI Engineer

Rapid7

Cambridge, MA

Dec 2015 - Apr 2017

Responsibilities: designing, developing, testing, and maintaining features for Rapid7's Insight suite of products; aiding in the creation of shared code modules to be used across the entire Rapid7 product line; migrating to React+Redux codebase from legacy Handlebars+Backbone+jQuery codebase Skills: JavaScript, ES6, ES7, Backbone.js, React, Redux, CSS, SASS, Webpack, node.js

Software Engineer

Pearson Learning Solutions

Aug 2014 - Dec 2015

Responsibilities: creating, maintaining and improving high-volume, high-uptime internal and customer-facing Web sites and REST API services Skills: Java, WebLogic, JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone.js, CSS, node.js

software engineer; lead GUI software engineer

Corero Network Security (formerly Top Layer Security)

Apr 2008 - Aug 2014

Responsibilities: maintaining and improving cross-platform applications written in Java; creating and contributing to design and functional specifications and schedule planning for new features; designing, developing, maintaining, and improving internal and customer-facing Web sites written in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, with a focus on usability and accessibility; leading design and development of next-gen AJAX-based user interface for entire Corero product family; assisting with architecture of next-gen element management system (EMS) for use with existing and next-gen Corero devices Skills: Java, C, PHP, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone.js, CSS, LESS, node.js, XML, data modeling

software engineer

MRV Communications

Nov 2005 - Apr 2008

Responsibilities: maintaining and improving high-performance browser-based and distributed applications written in C, Java, Tcl, and XML on embedded Linux platforms, with a focus on usability and security; assisting in designing and developing client look-and-feel and XML message protocol for next-generation user interfaces to MRV devices Skills: Java, C, XML, Tcl

software engineer

SAIC

Sep 2003 - Nov 2005

Responsibilities: maintaining and developing applications using C, Motif, Perl, and Tk/Tcl on Linux and Windows platforms; assisting with shipboard installation and testing of product; assisting with field operations in the role of hydrographic surveyor Skills: C, Motif, Perl

Education: 1

Georgia Institute of Technology

BS, computer science

Jan 1999 - Jan 2003

concentrations: networking HCI

Projects: 1

Github presence

github.com/orzechowskid

Skills: 13

Technical

HTMLJavaScriptLinuxnode.jsPythonSQLTypeScript

Business

Engineering Management

Creative

User Interface Design

Security

IPSNetwork Security

Other

GUISemantic HTML

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