Dan Zumwalt
Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Zumwalt is a Principal Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading teams at large tech companies, currently shaping platform and product work at LinkedIn after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, repeatedly stepping up from individual contributor roles to senior staff and principal levels across complex, scale-oriented projects. Based in Snoqualmie, Washington, he brings a systems-focused background from a B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology and a track record of shipping reliable software across cloud and enterprise environments. Known for translating ambiguous requirements into pragmatic architectures, he prioritizes mentorship and cross-team collaboration to accelerate delivery. A practical problem-solver, Dan often operates at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and developer productivity rather than just code-for-code’s-sake engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electronics Engineering Technology Computer Systems, B.S. Electronics Engineering Technology Computer Systems at Western Washington University
Github Skills (97)
platform-agnostic10
bower9
javascript9
yarnpkg9
authentication9
npm9
test-automation8
cli8
artifacts8
webdriver8
async-await8
reporter8
npm-package8
windows8
appium8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zumwald/oss-attribution-generator
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
utility to parse bower and npm packages used in a project and generate an attribution file to include in your product
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 5 commits in 1 year 1 month
bowernpm-packageattributionnodejsnpm
zumwald/zumwald.github.io
Sep 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:37 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
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