Dan Thiffault
Co-Founder & CTO at Tern
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDan Thiffault is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 14 years of experience building and scaling product-driven engineering organizations. As Co-Founder & CTO of Tern after leading Product & Engineering there, he blends hands-on expertise in Java, Spring, Hibernate and Ruby on Rails with a strong bias for agile, lean and TDD practices to deliver pragmatic solutions. He has a track record of driving architecture overhauls and measurable business outcomes—from improving web performance and prototyping at consultancy to P&L and product launches as a general manager. Comfortable shifting between code and strategy, Dan is particularly adept at forming and mentoring teams that adopt harder-to-source technologies to achieve long-term transformation. Based in Newton, MA, he pairs an electrical engineering foundation from WPI with entrepreneurial grit cultivated across multiple startups and executive roles.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMass Academy of Math and Science
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Github Skills (23)
sidekiq9
jruby8
ruby8
rails7
ring6
asset-pipeline6
phoenix-framework6
elixir6
pipeline5
middleware4
api3
java-api3
database3
clojurescript3
editing2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
1NTERRUPT/terraform
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:22 PRs, 79 pushes, 31 branches in 2 years 1 month
DanThiffault/jusb
Feb 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
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