Summary
Dan Van Atta is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience delivering reliable, high-performance systems across retail, finance, healthcare, and media. He specializes in Java and cloud-native architectures, with a track record of shaving latencies (search from 12s to 1s), accelerating CI/CD cadence, and scaling data platforms to tens of thousands of ops per second. At Starbucks and Dendreon he modernized pipelines and cut costs by converting brittle workflows into Python-native Azure DevOps pipelines and resilient CI/CD stacks. He's equally at home optimizing PL/SQL and Java services as he is building integrations to Okta SSO and bank partners, showing a pragmatic full-stack focus. Based in Seattle and educated at UNC Chapel Hill in Computer Science and Mathematics, he combines hands-on engineering with an eye for operational robustness and measurable business impact. An often-overlooked strength is his habit of automating firefighting: several roles show he not only fixes production incidents but removes their root causes to prevent repeats.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a Second Major in Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a Second Major in Mathematics, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill