Dan Silivestru
Co-Founder And CEO at Chocolate Soup
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDan Silivestru is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader with over 15 years of hands-on startup experience and more than 25 years building and scaling companies. As Co-Founder and CEO of Chocolate Soup since 2016 he focuses on transforming workplace culture through radical employee appreciation and recognition, turning human-centered benefits into a subscription product that helps employers celebrate what matters. Earlier technical exits include co-founding tinyHippos (acquired by BlackBerry) and leading bitHound, demonstrating a rare mix of product-led engineering and commercial outcomes. He also advises and invests in early-stage ventures, mentors founders through Communitech, and is applying AI-driven compassion to healthcare with The Lyndall Project. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, Dan pairs pragmatic growth coaching with deep technical roots, often bridging developer tooling, open source thinking and culture-first people strategies.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Pure and applied science science, Pure and applied science science at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeUniversity of Waterloo
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
vue8
javascript8
web-application8
async7
typescript7
ripple7
emulation7
frontend7
nodejs6
cordova6
mobile-web5
progressive5
browser5
cross-platform5
javascript-framework3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
blackberry/Ripple-UI
Aug 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:182 commits in 1 year 7 months
emulatorweb-applicationmobile-platformmobile-webemulation
bithound/seaport
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
clusterskubernetesservice-registrysemver
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