Dan Koch
CTO at Koch Software
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Koch is a experienced technology leader and founder with 12+ years in engineering and executive roles, currently serving as CTO at Aidentified where he leads real-time, predictive systems that surface high-propensity wealth events. He blends hands‑on backend expertise—evidenced by maintaining and modernizing the popular django-jsonfield library for newer Django releases—with strategic leadership gained from founding companies and running engineering teams at media and sports organizations. Based in Charlotte, NC, he has repeatedly moved between startup and product-focused environments, translating data-driven product needs into reliable production systems. An entrepreneur at heart who still writes and ships code, he pairs practical open-source contributions with a long track record of building teams and shipping scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Charlotte Catholic High SchoolBS Science, BS Science at Villanova University
Github Skills (6)
json10
python10
django10
testing10
documentation7
postgresql4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rpkilby/jsonfield
Feb 2017 - Feb 2020
A reusable Django model field for storing ad-hoc JSON data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 39 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on maintaining and upgrading the `django-jsonfield` library. Their contributions included fixing compatibility issues with newer Django versions, specifically 1.11+. They updated Django support, adding support for versions 1.10+, dropping support for older versions, and also renamed a method. The user also handled the release of version 2.0.1 and 2.0.2.
pythondjangodjango-modelstoringjson-data
aidentified-llc/matching-api-cli
Mar 2022 - Jul 2024
Aidentified matching API CLI
Contributions:8 reviews, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
cli-apiapimatchingcli
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