Summary
Dan Fincher is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, full-stack systems across consumer and enterprise domains, now shipping software at Microsoft in Atlanta. He brings a practical engineering mindset rooted in a Georgia Tech mechanical engineering background with a minor in computer science, which shows up in hands-on solutions like custom retry logic, offline simulators, and CI/CD integrations. Comfortable leading small teams and owning cross-team changes, he has driven production features in React Native, Go, Java, and cloud microservices while improving reliability with Redis Pub/Sub and exponential backoff strategies. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation—he built CLIs and wizards to simplify testing and deployments—and he’s known for learning quickly and sharing that knowledge across teams. An understated yet telling detail: his playful GitHub note “shrimps is bugs” hints at a lighthearted approach to hunting down tricky issues.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, German, Spanish