Dan Stevens
Co-Founder at unMTA
Oak Creek, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDan Stevens is a seasoned entrepreneur and software leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling email and deliverability-focused companies, currently co-founding unMTA after leading Kickbox as CEO. He blends product vision with hands-on quality engineering—contributing automated tests to prominent open lists like disposable-email-domains—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on data integrity and reliable systems. Based in Oak Creek, Colorado, Dan has repeatedly founded and led tech ventures since the mid-2000s, pairing business acumen from a Baylor Information Systems and Entrepreneurship background with deep operational experience. Known for translating complex anti-abuse and deliverability challenges into practical, testable solutions, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a bias for measurable quality to early-stage infrastructure initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Information Systems, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Baylor University - Hankamer School of BusinessMontgomery High School
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3,409reputation
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13answers
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Github Skills (14)
chai10
testing10
javascript9
nodejs8
asynchronous6
authorizenet6
throttling6
payment-gateway6
google-chrome6
lodash6
php6
event-handling6
onload6
validators6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ivolo/disposable-email-domains
Mar 2014 - Sep 2022
A list of disposable email domains
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:52 releases, 1422 commits, 809 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan's primary contribution involved adding tests for the project, specifically focusing on ensuring the validity and properties of disposable email domains. The commits introduce test cases to verify if the domains are lowercase, valid FQDNs, in alphabetical order, without duplicates, and meet the expected criteria. The user utilized testing frameworks and libraries, demonstrating a focus on quality assurance and automated testing practices.
emaildisposable-emaildisposabledisposable-email-domainsdomains
kickboxio/kickbox-php
Jun 2014 - Aug 2020
Email Address Verification for PHP
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 3 months
address-verificationphpemailaddressemail-address
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