Dale Sakamoto
Senior Software Engineer at Paciolan
Santa Ana, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDale Sakamoto is a Senior Software Engineer in Santa Ana with five years of professional experience building full-stack, cloud-native applications using JavaScript, Python, React, Node, Flask, PostgreSQL and AWS. He blends a formal background in music composition (PhD) with practical engineering—bringing a composer’s attention to architecture, sequence, and modular design to API contracts, caching strategies, and system diagrams. At Paciolan he has led contractor teams, designed microservices and serverless workflows, and integrated complex payment flows including ApplePay/GooglePay tied to PCI-compliant tokenization. Known for following stack traces to root causes, he also contributes creativity to UI components like seat-map widgets and bridges legacy systems with Kafka and Redis eventing. Outside engineering he has taught university-level courses, reflecting strong communication and curriculum design skills that help him document business logic and onboard teammates effectively.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Music, Music Composition, Masters of Music, Music Composition at Baylor UniversityDoctor, Music Theory and Composition, Doctor, Music Theory and Composition at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English and Music Composition, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English and Music Composition at Vanguard University of Southern CaliforniaSoftware developer, Software developer at App Academy
Github Skills (7)
twist4
medium3
react3
css1
django1
backend1
nodejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DaleTsakamoto/Dress-em-Up
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:134 commits, 4 PRs, 120 pushes in 5 months
Cmolerov/the_floor_is_lava
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:50 reviews, 106 PRs, 90 pushes in 4 months
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