Dan Kinsley
Engineering Lead at CAKE
Milton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDan Kinsley is an experienced engineering leader with 11 years building scalable, event-driven platforms and founding multiple startups across e-commerce, media, and identity. Currently Engineering Lead at CAKE, he brings deep hands-on expertise in microservices, real-time data systems, and frontend UX from roles that include CTO and Head of Technology at high-growth startups and blockchain-focused teams. He has repeatedly transitioned ideas into production—designing analytics-driven supply chains, multi-tenant e-commerce platforms, and real-time analytics products—while also serving as CEO and partner at early-stage ventures. Based in Milton, Massachusetts, Dan combines strategic product leadership with low-level engineering skills (NodeJS, Scala, Kafka, Cassandra, React) and a penchant for operational reliability and monitoring. A less obvious strength is his track record of adapting architectures across domains—from graph databases and containerized deployments to identity systems—showing both entrepreneurial grit and technical breadth.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Networking and Information Systems, Bachelors Computer Networking and Information Systems at Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (72)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dankins/labs
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:31 PRs, 386 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
mojitoinc/mojito-contracts
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
Smart Contracts
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 months
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