Daniel Ackerman
CTO & Co-Founder at BallotBrain
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Ackerman is a pragmatic CTO and serial founder with 12 years of hands-on experience building production systems from startups to marketplaces. Based in Austin, he blends backend expertise (Rails, Elixir, Kubernetes) with a product-minded approach—shipping high-performance analytics, WebRTC interview platforms, and engagement features that moved metrics at Grailed and Indeed. Known for ruthless simplification and resource optimization, he evaluates designs and processes with an engineering economist’s eye, favoring elegant abstractions that meet deadlines. Daniel’s background includes co-founding multiple startups and leading backend architecture as an early engineer, so he’s as comfortable writing the first line of code as scaling clusters in production. An uncommon detail: he’s deployed systems ranging from precompiled binary JS libraries to Postgres multirange calendaring and presented payment-algorithm work at RubyConf, reflecting both deep technical craft and practical impact.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Studies, Computer Science Studies at Christopher Newport UniversityLoudoun Valley High School
Stackoverflow
415reputation
68kreached
7answers
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top-5%
Github Skills (51)
redis9
dynamic9
object-literal9
database8
disk8
strings8
nosql8
lists8
in-memory7
key-value7
on-the-fly7
ruby-client7
literal7
type-conversion6
collections6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Danieth/binarySearchTreeVisualized
Apr 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
Danieth/rb_maxima
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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