Dakota Brink
Senior Software Engineer at Ephemera
Ravenna, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDakota Brink is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of full-stack experience, currently focused on secure, decentralized messaging and systems at Ephemera and MetaDAO. He ships across Rust, Svelte, React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Phoenix/Elixir, SQL and Java, bridging performant backends with polished frontends. Dakota has a track record of technical leadership from CTO and lead roles to principal engineering, repeatedly taking ownership of architecture and delivery in startups and scale-ups. His work emphasizes security and decentralization, reflected in his current focus at EphemeraHQ. Based in Ravenna, Michigan, he pairs Midwest pragmatism with a habit of exploring new stacks—often choosing Rust and Elixir for system reliability. A Michigan Tech CS graduate, he’s comfortable moving between low-level systems and user-facing product features to solve real-world problems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Michigan Technological University
Spanish
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Github Skills (141)
specification10
syncthing10
sdk-nodejs10
sphinx10
bigint10
sdk9
generated-code9
mls9
migration9
dbus9
qdrant9
android-applications9
driver9
documentation9
swift8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
codabrink/Windows-Syncthing-Installer
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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