Dan Barrett
Costa Rica, United States
Summary
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SeniorDan Barrett is a seasoned Fractional CTO and executive engineering leader with 14 years of experience scaling teams from solo contributors to 100+ engineers across Seed to Series C. He blends software, data, DevOps, and AI leadership with a people-first philosophy—prioritizing culture and process before technology—to deliver pragmatic, human-centric product engineering. Dan has led engineering organizations at startups and scale-ups, including Opal, Welcome (acquired by BambooHR), BambooHR, and currently advises embedded teams at Gabb and Parsec Education. As founder of Bearking Co, he helps companies grow without sacrificing team well-being, bringing operator experience alongside strategic technical judgment. Based in Florida, he pairs hands-on systems and platform experience with a track record of building multidisciplinary engineering and data teams. Unobvious detail: his background spans founding startups and teaching software engineering, giving him both entrepreneurial grit and a knack for mentoring non-traditional talent.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (50)
python10
flask10
react10
data-science9
apache9
data-engineering9
data-exploration9
data-analytics9
analytics9
data-viz9
business-intelligence9
superset9
data-analysis9
data-visualization9
apache-superset8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtpunch/sherlock
Apr 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 10 months
pineapplehq/hiring-exercises
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Welcome Hiring Process & Exercises - heywelcome.com
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 8 months
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