Dan Hess
Vice President Of Data Science & Engineering
Denton, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Hess is a data and engineering leader with 12 years of experience who moved from the classroom to build educational technology and data-driven systems that scale. Currently Vice President of Data Science & Engineering at Charter School Growth Fund, he combines hands-on software engineering and people leadership to turn educator insight into measurable impact. His background as a teacher and department chair gives him an uncommon empathy for product design and change management in schools, while his autodidactic drive keeps him current on tooling and analytics practices. Dan has progressed through technical and managerial roles at KIPP and Aspire, consistently translating complex data into actionable evaluation and engineering solutions. Based in Denton, Texas, he brings a learner-first mentality to building teams, pipelines, and products that improve student outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.Ed., Secondary Education, M.A.Ed., Secondary Education at University of PhoenixB.A., Religious Studies, Minor in Japanese, B.A., Religious Studies, Minor in Japanese at UC Santa Barbara
Stackoverflow
587reputation
185kreached
1answer
6questions
Github Skills (78)
terminology10
pipenv9
google-classroom9
tarantool8
sql8
dbt8
lottery7
pygsheets7
pipeline7
css7
sqlalchemy7
python-client6
data-lineage6
datasette6
django6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dchess/dchess.github.io
Jan 2018 - Aug 2023
My personal blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 7 months
kippnorcal/sqlsorcery
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Dead simple wrapper for pandas and sqlalchemy
Contributions:1 release, 114 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 8 months
pythondataframessqlalchemydatasettepandas
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