Summary
Dana Basken is a senior software engineer and product architect with over nine years of recent experience (and decades overall) building maintainable, high-performance products through rapid iterative prototyping. She has led architecture and implementation across front-end UIs, cross-platform mobile, and backend systems using Java/Groovy, JavaScript/Node, Python and mobile stacks, and operationalized solutions on AWS/GCP with Docker and Kubernetes. Dana’s strengths lie in designing extensible platforms—her past work includes a distributed image renderer, a custom scripting language and template editor, a WebSocket-based real-time comms layer, and a persistent object manager backed by LDAP. Comfortable from embedded C++ to modern React and Flutter apps, she bridges product needs and engineering practicality while slashing development cycles. Based in Salem, NH, she brings a pattern-oriented approach that favors observable data models and event-driven designs to make complex systems more reliable and faster to evolve.
9 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
English