Dan Gaeta
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Gaeta is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing tools at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. He specializes in scalable backend APIs and distributed services, having shipped features for Search, Alexa News, and Amazon Fresh membership systems. Dan also contributes to prominent open-source tooling—improving API Extractor within Microsoft's widely used Rush Stack monorepo—where he focused on documentation generation, type-system robustness, and refactors. A former startup founder, he blends product intuition with systems-level rigor and a habit of questioning the status quo to drive better solutions. Based in New York, he holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from UIUC and complements his corporate experience with hands-on OSS and early-stage product work.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSummer Quarter, Summer Quarter at Stanford University
Github Skills (9)
api-documentation10
typescript10
jsdoc10
typescripts10
api10
apidoc10
typescript-types10
monorepo9
build-tools8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/rushstack
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Monorepo for tools developed by the Rush Stack community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:328 commits, 39 PRs, 122 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the API Extractor tool within the Rush Stack monorepo. Their work involved fixing JSDoc errors, enabling support for features like the "@" symbol in summaries and adding support for external API documentation resolution. They also refactored classes, added test cases and focused on core code and type system enhancements. The contributions indicate an involvement in improving the tool's documentation generation capabilities.
apimonorepoeslintapi-extractororchestrator
dgaeta/personal-website
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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