Dan Kinder
Director, Software Engineering at Turnitin
Hyattsville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Kinder is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11+ years building and scaling distributed systems, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Turnitin. He combines hands-on architecture (Go, C++, Python), petabyte-scale storage design (CockroachDB, Cassandra, S3, DynamoDB, Postgres) and AWS/cloud expertise with practical on-premise build and deployment experience. His work spans high-scale search, web crawling, document parsing, NLP and machine learning integration, and he regularly drives build-vs-buy strategy and product-aligned technical vision. Known for developing teams that trust one another and consistently deliver value, he balances people leadership with deep technical ownership. A UC Berkeley EECS grad, he’s spent his entire career at Turnitin progressing from individual contributor to director, which reflects both long-term domain expertise and institutional impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (134)
programming-language10
postgresql10
interpreter10
sql10
golang10
database10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
go10
mocking10
knn10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
driver10
mocks9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
katabole/katabole
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
A productive Go web framework
Contributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 1 PR in 9 months
dankinder/handle
Mar 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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