Dan Whitcomb
Principal Software Engineer - Catering & Events
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Whitcomb is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams across startups and mature organizations. Currently a founding engineer for Toast’s Catering & Events platform, he’s shipped three products that helped grow catering to 10,000 users and over $5M ARR while driving platform architecture and cross-R&D integrations. Previously at Drift he scaled the chat system 10x, led cost-saving and data-migration initiatives, and modernized 60+ microservices to Java 11, showing a knack for balancing performance, cost, and compliance. His background spans cloud, IoT, and infrastructure work at companies like Tive, MITRE, and VMware, giving him deep systems and operational experience. Known for hands-on leadership, he combines product empathy with pragmatic engineering to turn ambiguous problems into shipped solutions. Based in Boston, he also maintains a public presence at danwhitcomb.com demonstrating a thoughtful blend of technical depth and business impact.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Dartmouth CollegeNew Trier High School District
Github Skills (32)
aurora7
database-management6
java6
migration6
database5
sql5
mysql5
continuous-deployment5
database-migrations5
postgresql4
lightstep4
continuous-delivery4
devops4
flyway4
rdbms3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cosanlab/emote
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
danrwhitcomb/Monarch
Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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