Dan Piet
Vice President Of Engineering at Rokt
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Piet is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Rokt in New York. He progressed through hands-on roles from junior systems administrator and LAMP/REST developer to senior and lead engineering positions at companies like HubSpot, Salsify, Datadog, and Rokt, blending individual contributor chops with people and org leadership. Deeply versed in Java back-end development and API security, he has contributed to notable open-source work such as enhancements to the RestFB Facebook Graph API client, adding app secret proofing and encoding utilities. Known for shipping pragmatic, secure integrations and driving platform reliability, he pairs a systems-first mindset with product sensibility. Colleagues describe him as a leader who still enjoys diving into code and shipping the small but critical improvements that prevent outages and accelerate teams.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Northeastern University
Github Skills (8)
javas10
graph10
apim10
api10
api-design10
facebook10
java10
security9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
restfb/restfb
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
RestFB is a simple and flexible Facebook Graph API client written in Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the `restfb` library by implementing new features and making enhancements to existing functionality. This included adding an `encodeHex` function, introducing a new constructor taking an `appSecret`, and generating an `appsecret_proof` for API requests. These changes involve modifications to core classes like `DefaultFacebookClient` and `EncodingUtils`, suggesting a focus on API interaction and security aspects.
facebook-graph-apijavafacebookgraph-apimessenger-platform
pietdaniel/sprig-cli
Sep 2018 - Dec 2023
Comand line tool for Sprig
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 4 months
comand-line
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