Dan Adler
Chief Executive Officer at Sourcegraph
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Adler is a seasoned technology and business leader with 11 years of experience who recently stepped into the CEO role at Sourcegraph after leading its business, operations, and strategy functions. He blends hands-on engineering—contributions to Sourcegraph’s codebase and other open-source projects across front-end and back-end—with executive experience building finance, analytics, legal, and IT organizations. A Stanford GSB MBA and Rice CS graduate, Dan pairs product and technical fluency with a track record of founding a startup and driving growth-stage operational rigor. He has directly improved developer-facing tooling and analytics features in notable projects like Sourcegraph’s code search platform, reflecting a maker’s mentality even as he scales teams. Colocated in Oakland, he brings both consulting rigor from Bain and investment perspective from Vector Capital to strategic decision-making. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic operator who still dives into code to solve tricky UX and data-quality issues.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rice University
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
useraccounts10
account-manager10
css10
typescript10
language-server-protocol10
user-management10
go10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
account-management10
management10
typescripts10
web-development10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/about
Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
Sourcegraph blog, feature announcements, and website (about.sourcegraph.com)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:140 reviews, 185 commits, 377 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the front-end components of the Sourcegraph about website. Their commits focused on updating the pricing page, including features such as new pricing tiers, discount notices, and UI improvements. They also updated customer logos, fixed analytics tracking, and modified the jobs page to remove an obsolete team section, all of which involved changes to the website's user interface and user experience.
announcementsreactsourcegraph
langserver/langserver.github.io
Oct 2016 - Sep 2020
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the development of the langserver.github.io website by adding and updating content related to Language Server Protocol implementations. They added implementations for various languages and clients, along with associated links and status indicators. Additionally, they integrated Google Analytics for tracking website traffic and user behavior, and incorporated CSS and JSON language servers.
language-server-protocol
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