Dan Hackner
Technical Director at Roblox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Hackner is a Technical Director with 12 years of experience designing and scaling complex architectures for startups and large enterprises, currently leading platform strategy at Roblox after a multi-year leadership run at Uber. He specializes in translating ambiguous product needs into discrete engineering plans, founding Rider Personalization and architecting Uber Pro while driving company-wide migrations, testing strategy, and platformization that eliminated hundreds of redundant engineering months. Comfortable from on-the-ground user research to executive trade-off discussions, he excels at shipping ML-enabled personalization, consolidation of messaging/ads stacks, and global product launches. A practiced mentor and international speaker, he teaches Lean product engineering and has a history of building privacy-first distributed systems and novel security protocols from his consulting work. Based in San Francisco and trained at University of Maryland with executive leadership coursework from Harvard Business School Online, he combines hands-on IC craft with organizational design to scale best practices across large, distributed teams.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education Leadership & Strategy, Executive Education Leadership & Strategy at Harvard Business School OnlineBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Maryland
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
injection9
python9
e-mail9
queue8
dependency-injection8
task-manager8
amqp8
redis8
nodejs7
golang7
task-scheduler7
aws-lambda7
task-queue7
serverless6
one-to-one6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dhackner/bec
May 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 year 7 months
agile-course/runmoar
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:67 pushes, 4 branches in 8 days
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