Summary
Dakota Sorenson is a Software Engineer II with eight years of hands-on experience building backend and full-stack systems across startups and enterprise teams. Having progressed through co-op and developer roles at FM Global and Wegmans to engineering positions at Sats App, HiHello, and MAX.Live, Dakota brings practical experience shipping production services in fast-moving product environments. He holds a game design and development degree from RIT, which informs a strong systems-thinking approach and attention to user-facing detail. Comfortable across backend engineering and full-stack work, Dakota prioritizes quality, efficiency, and continual learning while adapting quickly to new tech stacks. Based in Henrietta, NY, he combines startup agility with the discipline gained from enterprise development cycles. Outside of work he leverages his game-design background to approach problems creatively and iteratively.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Game Design and Development, Bachelor’s Degree Game Design and Development at Rochester Institute of Technology
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Somers Senior High School