Dan Posch

San Francisco, California, United States

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Dan Posch is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience building distributed systems, mission control software, and consumer-facing apps from San Francisco. He has led engineering teams at startups and aerospace (ABL Space Systems) and shipped products that span ground telemetry to conversational AI (CTO at Dynasty.com) and acquisitions (Director at AppFolio). A hands-on engineer, Dan contributes to high-profile open-source projects like WebTorrent and Node.js—optimizing core runtime Buffer behavior and improving WebTorrent’s streaming and desktop UX. Currently building a universal stablecoin ramp at Daimo, he combines low-level performance tuning with pragmatic product-driven design. Colleagues describe him as an engineer-founder who bridges systems-level thinking and fluent front-end UX work, often surfacing subtle reliability improvements that pay dividends in production.

15 years of coding experience

4 years of employment as a software developer

Stanford University

Github Skills (26)

webtorrent10

javascript10

buffering10

buffer10

electron10

testing10

nodejs10

webrtc10

bittorrent10

react10

streaming10

user-interface9

ui-design9

interface-design9

browser9

Programming languages (19)

C#JavaC++RustCHandlebarsScalaGo

Github contributions (5)

webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop

Mar 2016 - Mar 2017

❤️ Streaming torrent app for Mac, Windows, and Linux

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:14 releases, 328 PRs, 552 pushes in 1 year

Contributions summary:Dan contributed significant changes to the front-end of the WebTorrent Desktop application. Their work involved implementing custom video controls, integrating delete torrent functionality, and refining player controls. They also made code improvements by simplifying and refactoring components within the application, especially in the `torrent-list.js` and `player.js` files. This included work to improve the UI and user experience.

electronwindowsp2pbittorrentjavascript

brave/browser-laptop

Nov 2016 - Nov 2016

[DEPRECATED] Please see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser for the current version of Brave

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:44 commits, 6 PRs, 60 comments in 28 days

Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the Brave browser's torrent viewer extension. Their commits focused on refactoring UI components, fixing bugs, and enhancing the user experience by adding features such as download links and file navigation. Key changes involved migrating from `ImmutableComponent` to `React.Component` and integrating the torrent viewer with the Brave browser's functionality. They also worked on styling and improving the overall presentation of the torrent content within an iframe.

browserwindowsjavascriptbrave-browserlinux

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