Dan Gilbert
Software Engineer at Mocha
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Gilbert is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams and apps, currently working at Mocha in Chicago. He co-founded and led engineering at Rivet, raising Series A from Benchmark and shipping multiple React Native and Phoenix/Elixir products spanning construction communications, AI-assisted telephony, and Gen Z rewards. Comfortable across the stack, he favors React, TypeScript, Ruby, and Elixir and has a track record of taking startups from early product to acquisition or fundraising. His background includes engineering leadership roles at Ramp, Nextdoor, Groupon, and a prior exit with Fam, reflecting strong product-to-scale experience. Trained as a computer engineer at UIUC, he combines hands-on coding with founder-level operational judgement and a knack for turning prototypes into sustained, team-driven platforms.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (51)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
testing10
expo10
typescript10
facebook10
android10
frontend10
react10
mbaas9
framework79
cross-platform9
microfrontend9
mobile9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bjornco/react-native
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 2 months
react-nativenative-appsreactredux
bkochendorfer/BuddyTube
May 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 1 push in 3 years 8 months
reactsyncingyoutubechatroomcapabilities
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