Dan Dobrick
Owner at Shopify
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Dobrick is a product-minded backend engineer and owner with a decade of experience building and leading high-traffic systems and teams. Currently at Shopify and running an online used board game store, he combines hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial instincts and a pragmatic "get things done" attitude. He has led backend efforts from greenfield marketplaces to integrating acquired curriculum platforms, improving build pipelines and search with PostGIS, and owning services serving tens of millions of daily requests. Colleagues rely on him for incident response, clear technical decisions, and mentoring engineers through complex priorities and roadmaps. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he brings a rare blend of education background and software craft—former math teacher turned staff engineer—favoring remote roles and dependable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education (M.Ed.) Secondary Mathematics, Master of Education (M.Ed.) Secondary Mathematics at Loyola University ChicagoWeb Development, Web Development at Dev BootcampUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (115)
python10
starlark10
browser9
golang9
home-automation9
music9
react9
player9
google-play9
raspberry-pi9
kubernetes9
iot9
zsh-completion8
playing8
mqtt8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DanDobrick/phase-0-tracks
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:101 PRs, 73 pushes, 88 branches in 3 years 10 months
DanDobrick/spare-change
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:178 commits, 69 PRs, 79 pushes in 10 days
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