Dan Scanlon is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building consumer and media products from prototype to scale. As Co-Founder and CTO of Genesis XYZ and former Head of Engineering at Futurism, he has modernized high-traffic systems, launched a Next.js/Vercel site for 10M users, and rebuilt mobile apps with React Native under tight timelines. He blends hands-on engineering—shipping complex media compositing, live streaming, and analytics features—with product and operational savvy gained from founding multiple startups including an e-commerce rebrand that tripled inventory turnover. Comfortable across full-stack, mobile, and infrastructure domains, he’s advised early-stage teams on architecture and built greenfield tooling that attracted attention in the developer community. Based in Doylestown, PA, Dan brings entrepreneurial grit and a pragmatic focus on reliable delivery, hiring, and mentoring engineering teams. An early adopter of React Native and frequent inventor of practical integrations, he pairs rapid execution with attention to long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Science and Technology at Penn State University
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.