Dan Lecocq
Principal Engineer at SoFi
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolDan Lecocq is a Principal Engineer with 16 years building reliable, extensible infrastructure for large-scale web crawling, data indexing, and scientific visualization. He has led engineering efforts at SoFi and Instructure and scaled crawlers and processing pipelines handling billions of pages at Moz, combining deep hands-on skill in Python, C++, Java, and distributed systems like HBase/MapReduce. Passionate about shipping pragmatic solutions quickly, he balances "good enough" delivery with academic rigor—automated testing, well-designed experiments, and evidence-based decisions. Based in Albuquerque, he brings a rare mix of research experience (applied math and computational science) and production-grade engineering, often favoring elegant, maintainable systems over clever one-offs.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Junior Year Program in English, Computer Science, Junior Year Program in English, Computer Science at 東北大学B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesM.Sc., Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, M.Sc., Applied Mathematics and Computational Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (20)
python9
parsing9
floating-point9
rake7
rgb6
gaussian6
fileio6
dictionary6
zeromq6
colors6
pickle6
python-bindings5
ruby4
api4
pipeline4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dlecocq/webglot3d
Apr 2010 - May 2012
Contributions:74 commits in 2 years
IngeniousDesigns/pylastfm
Oct 2011 - Feb 2012
Python Bindings for Last.fm API
Contributions:8 commits in 4 months
apipythonpython-bindingsfm-apilastfm
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