Dan Gaeta
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Gaeta is a software engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building backend and distributed systems, currently contributing to Google Search. He’s known for challenging the status quo and has shipped backend services at Amazon Fresh, including a distributed invite list built on native AWS, and developer frameworks at Microsoft for React on SharePoint. As a co-founder of Fitsby he brings product and startup grit—his app was featured on Fox News, Lifehacker and praised by PC Magazine. He also contributes to open-source tooling, improving API Extractor within Microsoft’s widely used rushstack monorepo to enhance JSDoc support and external API resolution. This blend of production-scale backend engineering, developer tooling contributions, and product experience gives him a rare mix of systems-level rigor and user-focused thinking.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
api-documentation10
typescript10
jsdoc10
typescripts10
api10
apidoc10
typescript-types10
monorepo9
build-tools8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/rushstack
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Monorepo for tools developed by the Rush Stack community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:328 commits, 39 PRs, 122 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the API Extractor tool within the Rush Stack monorepo. Their work involved fixing JSDoc errors, enabling support for features like the "@" symbol in summaries and adding support for external API documentation resolution. They also refactored classes, added test cases and focused on core code and type system enhancements. The contributions indicate an involvement in improving the tool's documentation generation capabilities.
apimonorepoeslintapi-extractororchestrator
dgaeta/personal-website
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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