Dan Wright
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Staunton, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Wright is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building data-driven systems and streaming architectures, currently focused on data privacy at Capital One. He blends backend architecture, timeseries-optimized SQL design, and full-stack delivery—having led the first IoT monitoring-as-a-service platform and customer-facing streaming analytics at Everactive. Comfortable across JS/TS, Python, Java, and PHP, he has deep operational experience from HPC and cloud CDN work to SOC2-aligned security programs. Dan has a long track record of technical leadership and hands-on execution, from technical due diligence on data lake platforms to integrating two-way data flows with industry partners. Based in Staunton, VA, he also runs technology strategy and finance systems for a nonprofit, demonstrating a rare mix of product, ops, and governance fluency. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex data problems into practical, auditable systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (53)
angular8
freeswitch8
streaming8
react8
typescript8
sdp8
javascript8
nodejs8
sctp8
messaging8
kamailio8
pubsub7
queuing7
pulsar7
database6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dtwright/qmk_firmware
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:87 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 3 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
dtwright/Rollow-ZMK
Aug 2022 - Sep 2023
Forked ZMK Firmware Repository for Rollow
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
zmkfirmwaresoftware-update
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