Dan Pickett
Founder And Principal Software Developer at Launch Academy, Inc
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDan Pickett is a founder and principal software developer in Boston with 14 years of hands-on product and engineering leadership and two decades of experience building commercial software. He leads LaunchWare, providing custom development and fractional CTO services that have guided multiple startups from MVP to market, and previously founded Launch Academy, an intensive bootcamp that trained over 1,000 working software engineers. As a technical co-founder he built a waiting-list product that improved wait-time accuracy by 75% and was sold to a strategic buyer, and as Director of Engineering he delivered complex integrations with carriers and fulfillment systems. Comfortable operating across architecture, team leadership, and curriculum design, Dan pairs practical entrepreneurship with a knack for turning messy business processes into sellable software assets.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science Entrepreneurship Philosophy, Computer Science Computer Science Entrepreneurship Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (200)
test-kitchen10
opensearch10
testing10
dry-rb10
elasticsearch10
factories10
search-engine10
coercion10
capybara10
java10
obsidian10
restful10
rubygems9
javascript9
django9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LaunchAcademy/make_it_so
Dec 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 154 commits, 49 PRs in 6 years 4 months
LaunchAcademy/sinatra_forms_example
Nov 2014 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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