Dan Howard
Director Of Engineering at The Walt Disney Company
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Howard is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling content platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering at The Walt Disney Company in Los Angeles. He leads teams that normalize metadata from 500+ partners to reliably deliver content to millions of users, combining product-minded leadership with hands-on engineering rigor. His background spans front-end architecture and full-stack systems at organizations from the NFL and Hulu to fast-moving startups, where he has driven greenfield React builds, platform launches, and cross-functional alignment. An active contributor to open-source React tooling, he improved HTML attribute handling and test coverage for the widely used react-helmet project, reflecting a practical focus on developer experience. Known for instituting engineering metrics and internal tools, he balances operational excellence with developer productivity to reduce churn and accelerate delivery. Trained in Interactive Media and Computer Science at USC, he brings both creative and technical perspectives to large-scale streaming problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Interactive Media Computer Science, BA Interactive Media Computer Science at University of Southern California
English
Github Skills (4)
html10
javascript10
react10
testing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nfl/react-helmet
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
A document head manager for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan focused on enhancing the React-based document head manager, React Helmet, by adding support for HTML attributes. They implemented features to manage and render HTML attributes correctly within the application. The user also added tests and refined existing ones for HTML attribute handling. Further contributions included code refactoring by removing polyfills and optimizing code, ultimately improving the library's functionality.
helmetreactside-effecthead
nfl/wildcat-codemod
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 35 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 month
reactcodemod
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