Dan Kamins
CEO at TextMarks
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDan Kamins is an experienced technology entrepreneur and CEO with over three decades of hands-on practice building games, internet and mobile startups, and cloud communication services. A Harvard AB in Computer Science who began programming video games at Activision, he co-founded multiple companies including Bitmo and TextMarks, scaling teams, raising capital, and shepherding exits. At TextMarks he moved from technical co-founder to CEO, blending strategic leadership with the ability to dive into code and systems when needed. His career uniquely spans early 3D game development, social and cloud-backed gaming experiments, and practical SaaS productization of messaging infrastructure. Based in Los Angeles, he combines a designer’s sense of elegance with engineering rigor and a long-standing focus on architecture and durable systems. Beyond titles, he brings a lifelong curiosity—sparked by an Apple IIe and LEGO—that fuels continuous learning and pragmatic innovation.
11 years of coding experience
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
typescript10
facebook10
testing9
electron9
editor8
visual-studio8
typechecker8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft8
type-check8
superset7
nodejs5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
axonchisel/ax_raspbpliance
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 10 months
axonchisel/ax_metrics
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
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