Summary
Dana Woodman is a senior software engineer and builder with 16 years of experience delivering full-stack products across web, mobile, desktop, CLI, and embedded systems. He has led engineering and product efforts as a founder, CTO-for-hire, and senior engineer for startups and enterprises, shipping systems that serve millions of users and solving real-world problems from RFID door locks to high-traffic SaaS platforms. Comfortable across TypeScript/Node, Golang, Svelte/React, and modern serverless/edge deployments, Dana emphasizes code quality, testability, and future-proof architectures while bridging business and technical priorities. He’s equally at home creating developer tooling, real-time platforms, and interactive art installations—a hint at a practical creativity that informs pragmatic, user-focused engineering. Currently improving community management tooling at Community Boss™, he also mentors teams on processes that reduce bureaucracy and increase psychological safety.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of the Pacific