Dan Abdinoor
Principal Engineer at Friendbuy - Referral Marketing Software
Lynnfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDan Abdinoor is a Principal Engineer and seasoned founder with 14 years of experience building and scaling teams, products, and ML-driven systems across consumer platforms and startups. He led machine learning engineering for Spotify’s Home organization, shipping large-scale ranking, personalization, and on-device intelligence, and previously founded Fritz AI, a mobile ML platform acquired by Spotify. Dan’s background spans early-stage growth (HubSpot from its eighth employee through IPO) to multiple acquisitions, giving him deep expertise in product strategy, team formation, and operationalizing applied AI. He advises startups and mentors at TechStars, bringing practical hiring and platform-building lessons from scaling organizations. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and leadership, he combines product sensibility with a track record of shipping production ML in constrained environments like mobile. Based in Massachusetts, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic focus on measurable impact.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia TechBA Communication Computer Science, BA Communication Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
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Github Skills (54)
machine-learning-models10
experiences10
restructuredtext9
markdown9
machine-learning9
mnist-dataset9
sphinx-extension9
sphinx8
python8
unet-image-segmentation8
documentation-generator8
mobile-application8
mnist8
sdk7
apple-music7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fritzlabs/fritz-examples
Jul 2018 - Mar 2023
A collection of experiences utilizing machine learning models from Fritz AI
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 8 months
experiencesfritzmachine-learningmachine-learning-models
abdinoor/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 6 tags in 4 years 2 months
dotfilesholmanzsh
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