Dan Gritsko
Principal Software Engineer at goHappy
Mechanicsville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Gritsko is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack products and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprises. Currently at goHappy after senior engineering leadership at CarMax and long tenures at Snagajob, he specializes in shipping user-focused platforms that tame communication complexity and scale reliably. He pairs deep technical breadth—from backend systems to polished client experiences—with a proven ability to take features from alpha to beta and into production. Based in Mechanicsville, VA, he holds a master's in computer science from Georgia Tech and brings an educator’s clarity to mentoring engineers and aligning cross-functional teams. A pragmatic problem-solver, he favors thoughtful notifications and tidy UX as much as robust architecture, showing attention to both human and technical aspects of software.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science Computer Science, Associate of Science Computer Science at Piedmont Virginia Community CollegeBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (66)
schema-validation10
validation9
schema9
validations9
type-safety9
validate9
sanitization9
type-inference8
react8
typesafe8
ios8
react-native8
android8
typescript8
http-api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dgritsko/coop_commander
Oct 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:252 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
dgritsko/mduel_js
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:192 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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