Dan Shultz is a seasoned technology leader and Senior Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling teams and platforms across advertising, e-books, EdTech, and fashion/retail. Based in Cleveland, he blends hands-on engineering (Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, Ember, React, Python/Django) with strategic planning to drive product growth and operational efficiency at companies like Stitch Fix and Ro. He has a track record of growing teams (e.g., expanding an engineering group from 7 to 16 and reorganizing into focused subteams), defining platform strategies that accelerate feature development, and solving complex performance and stability challenges. An active contributor to open-source projects, his front-end work on the Monocle ebook library demonstrates attention to cross-platform touch interactions and UX polish. Colleagues rely on him as a coach and partner who prioritizes people development while aligning technical investments to business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Malone College
A silky, tactile browser-based ebook JavaScript library.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:20 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the "monocle" project, focusing on the user interface and interaction model of the ebook library. Their work involved fixing bugs related to event handling within the scrubber component and preventing event propagation issues to improve user experience. Furthermore, the user implemented features related to the experimental interaction model, including support for touch events and Windows touch devices, demonstrating a focus on cross-platform compatibility. The user also made code consistency improvements and bug fixes.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 12 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Ember CLI deploy project. They updated code references, ensuring project configurations included the project object. A significant portion of their work involved refactoring deprecated commands and re-enabling features to support existing users. They also fixed requires within the deprecated commands to ensure functionality.
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