Dan Lindeman
Lead Software Engineer at thatgamecompany
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Lindeman is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years building scalable backend, streaming, and infrastructure systems for games, IoT, and analytics. He has led backend gameplay teams at thatgamecompany, architecting microservices that supported multi-million-player events and complex UGC, and recently joined Nava to continue shaping distributed systems. Dan’s background spans embedded automotive test tooling, platform integrations at Blue Medora, and optimization and data pipeline work at Spantree, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems, distributed services, and product-facing engineering. A former educator with an MS focused on distributed systems and an AWS Developer certification, he pairs technical leadership with a passion for making systems approachable and reliable. Notably, his work has handled event-scale voting and concert services that set participation records while improving newcomer experiences through tuned recommendation and readiness processes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Grand Valley State University
English, German
Github Skills (95)
solver10
front-end-development10
local-search9
javascript9
sanic9
metaheuristics9
api9
constraint9
optimization9
web-development9
css9
planning9
logistics9
maintenance9
crossword9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DanLindeman/generations
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
DanLindeman/7-in-7
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
Docker Compose Images that help spin up infra to follow along with the book 7 Databases in 7 Weeks.
Contributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
docker-imagefollowinfradockercompose
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