Dan Brown

Experience

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  Mathison

  Vice President of Product Engineering

  Jul 2021 - Mar 2024

  Technology for building more equitable and inclusive workplaces.

  • Lead the product engineering team which consisted of PMs, Designers, and Engineers.
  • Built a CI/CD pipeline from scratch that enabled frequent painless releases with DORA metrics that placed the team in the high-performing category.
  • Successfully led the company to SOC2 attestation.
  • Recruited, hired, built and managed a cross-functional in-house team of 21 members from scratch in three months.
  • Developed, up-leveled, and managed engineers, ensuring we have the key roles needed to execute our roadmap. For example, promoted and mentored three new Tech Leads.
  • Architected and implemented a microservice that encapsulated the integration of Mathison’s product with various HRIS systems to facilitate the ingestion of HR data into the Mathison data pipeline.
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  Edmodo

  Director/Sr Director of Engineering

  May 2017 - Nov 2020

  Learning Better Together. Edmodo was a global education network that empowers educators to engage lifelong learners.

  • Directed the Growth, Retention, Platform, and Communications teams, orchestrating a scalable team growth strategy that expanded the engineering team from 3 to 30 members.
  • Led the technical migration from a PHP/Vanilla-Javascript/Backbone monolith to a modern architecture using React for the front end and Ruby on Rails for the back end, significantly enhancing application performance and maintainability.
  • Implemented rigorous cross-functional collaboration, working closely with product, design, and data teams to build cohesive, high-performing units that accelerated product development and innovation.
  • Championed architecture simplification and continuous process improvement, introducing regular technical debt and bug fix days to ensure codebase health and system efficiency.
  • Developed and executed strategic product roadmaps, aligning project initiatives with broader business objectives and significantly contributing to sustained user growth and platform stability.
  • Managed diverse and geographically dispersed teams, overseeing remote engineers in India and China, fostering a culture of inclusivity and high performance across global teams.
  • Spearheaded the development of key platform features, such as enhanced registration and onboarding processes and SEO-optimized teacher profiles, to improve user engagement and acquisition.
  • Provided hands-on full-stack development and leadership, directly contributing to code reviews, feature development, and mentoring junior engineers and tech leads to promote career advancement and skill enhancement.
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  Edmodo Inc

  Snr Software Engineer/Tech Lead

  Jul 2015 - Apr 2017

  Learning Better Together. Edmodo was a global education network that empowers educators to engage lifelong learners.

  • Collaborated closely with Product Managers to elicit requirements and refine system architecture, enhancing existing solutions and ensuring alignment with user needs and goals.
  • Served as a key member of the Platform team, handling full-stack development, continuous bug fixes, and backend support for mobile applications, significantly contributing to the maintenance and improvement of user feed functionality and system stability.
  • Led a diverse group of highly skilled Engineers to build features focused on driving growth at the world leading educational platform provider. 
  • Built and managed a team that focused on students and then growth. 
  • Worked on registration and onboarding features, teacher profiles for SEO and to engage students
  • * Provided technical as well as managerial leadership, and mentored the junior engineer 
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  Accuray

  Robotics Engineer

  Jun 2005 - Feb 2014

  We work passionately to create innovative radiotherapy cancer treatments.

  • Robot workspace analysis, path planning and optimization, including design and implementation of software tools. Collision avoidance. C++ APIs for the robotics domain. Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Design Patterns. 
  • Design and implementation of RoboSim, a graphical simulation program for the CyberKnife System using C++ and OpenGL.
  • Software development for the CyberKnife manipulator systems. 
  • Robot path planning and optimization (software tools design and implementation)
  • Robot workspace analysis, monitoring and collision detection 
  • Integration of the robot system with CyberKnife 
  • Development of robotic applications in support of production and customers .