Dan Barrett
Fractional CTO Executive Engineering Leader at Aligned
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan 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
15 years of employment as a software developer
Education, Education at Northwest Christian CollegeB.A, Urban & Regional Planning, B.A, Urban & Regional Planning at State University of New York at Buffalo
Spanish, English
Github Skills (68)
python10
flask10
data-visualization10
react10
data-engineering9
data-exploration9
data-analytics9
data-viz9
superset9
plotly-dash9
visualization9
business-intelligence9
apache9
data-science9
asf9
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
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 8 months
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