Summary
Dakota Crowder is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area with a decade-plus background building resilient, cross-platform systems for startups and enterprise teams. He has led and shipped complex backend microservices (Python, Go) and modern frontends (React/Redux), driving measurable business impact—most notably shrinking life insurance application fulfillment from weeks to minutes at Policygenius. Dakota combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, owning carrier integrations, CI/CD improvements, and product-focused architecture. Currently at Red Hat working on a new Edge Management product, he brings practical experience in distributed systems, dynamic scheduling algorithms, and production notification services. A pragmatic problem-solver who started in web ops and product roles, he blends customer-facing insight with deep technical execution.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill