Dan Fellin
Chief Technology Officer at PolyAPI
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDan Fellin is a pragmatic engineering leader and CTO with 11+ years building startups and shipping integrations, currently leading PolyAPI’s product and platform strategy. He specializes in keeping systems lean—favoring simplicity and “the best code is no code”—and has deep hands-on experience with modern SaaS architecture, cloud migrations, and API-driven integrations. Previously he scaled Talentpair’s backend services, led a Python 2→3 migration, and implemented resilient async workloads, search, and container-based deployments. Based in Portland, Oregon, he blends product-minded technical leadership with a knack for mentoring engineers and translating business problems into ready-to-implement technical solutions. An early-stage founder and former solo consultant, he brings both pragmatic startup grit and broad operational experience to infrastructure and integration challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA History, Master of Arts - MA History at Portland State University
Github Skills (83)
python10
resource-sharing10
django10
docx10
pdf10
orm10
sendgrid9
django-framework9
headers9
cors9
travis-ci8
twilio8
transactional-emails8
api-client7
ruby7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
polyapi/polyapi-python
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:6 reviews, 40 PRs, 242 pushes in 1 year 4 months
eupharis/python-docx
Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
Create and modify Word documents with Python
Contributions:1 PR, 45 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 3 months
word-documentspythonpdfmodify
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