Dan Pastori is a co-founder and software architect with 12+ years of experience turning product ideas into scalable, secure web and mobile applications. Based in Milwaukee, he leads Server Side Up, delivering custom apps, productized offerings, and open-source tooling while partnering closely with clients to ship results in days rather than months. He is hands-on across the stack—Laravel, PHP, Vue/Nuxt, Tailwind, MySQL—and has a track record modernizing legacy systems, building data-efficient databases, and automating complex business workflows. Dan contributes to notable open-source projects like serversideup/financial-freedom, where he implemented core Vue.js UI features, budgeting flows, and import integrations to create a privacy-first Mint alternative. He also produces educational content, two books, and community resources that amplify his practical engineering approach. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he prioritizes clean, maintainable architectures that ease future enhancements while solving today's problems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MCS, Management Computer Systems, MCS, Management Computer Systems at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
🔥🔥🔥 An open source alternative to Mint, YNAB, and more. Stay on budget and build wealth without sacrificing your privacy.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 review, 109 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on developing the front-end and back-end features of the financial freedom application, with a heavy emphasis on implementing core UI elements with Vue.js and Tailwind CSS. They implemented the ability to manage basic transaction fields and integrated category selections, as well as working on adding import capabilities for external data sources. Furthermore, they were responsible for the user interface updates and refinements, and managing account allocations and budgeting functionality with various API changes.
AmplitudeJS: Open Source HTML5 Web Audio Library. Design your web audio player, the way you want. No dependencies required.
Contributions:11 releases, 249 commits, 26 PRs in 8 years 6 months
audio-playermit-licensehtml5-audiodependenciescss
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Dan Pastori - Co-Founder, Software Architect at Server Side Up