Dan Kurtz
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDan Kurtz is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full‑stack systems that span JavaScript clients, backend infrastructure, caching layers, and AI services. He’s led technical architecture at Beyond 12 to scale college‑success tools for underrepresented students and helped grow mobile game platforms at Big Fish from prototype to millions of users. Based in Oakland, he combines a strong security and UX sensibility with pragmatic engineering—shipping everything from in‑game offer systems to deployment tooling and server scaling fixes. A cognitive science background and MISt in Information Studies give him a rare blend of user-centered thinking and systems-level rigor, and he favors projects that deliver measurable social impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA Cognitive Science, BA Cognitive Science at University of California, BerkeleyMISt Information Studies, MISt Information Studies at University of Toronto
Danish, Yiddish
Github Skills (145)
api-client10
pair-programming10
heroku10
audio10
api10
salesforce10
dokku10
simple-salesforce10
buildpack10
docker10
transcode10
hacklang9
browser9
tus9
uploader9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
incidentist/the_tuul
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Make a decent karaoke video from any song in about 10 minutes.
Contributions:1 release, 96 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years
songdecentvideokaraokeminutes
incidentist/vscode-hg
May 2020 - Apr 2023
Integrated Mercurial source control for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:31 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 11 months
source-controlvisual-studio-codeintegratedmercurialvscode
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