Summary
Dan Barrese is a software engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and building scalable, secure Java web applications and core platform components. He has led architecture and implementation work across incident response, customer portals, and microservices—prototyping a case management system that sped security incident response and helping migrate monoliths to containerized AWS deployments. Comfortable from low-level libraries to customer-facing features, he pairs pragmatic engineering with automation tooling in Python and Bash to accelerate teams. Calm under pressure and known for volunteering, mentoring, and taking responsibility, he brings a collaborative, improvement-focused leadership style. Past roles span aerospace (ULA), retail systems, and cybersecurity (Trustwave), where he earned awards for productivity and quality improvements. Based in Colorado, he blends systems thinking with hands-on delivery and a knack for simplifying complex workflows.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
English