Daniel Cousineau
Co-Founder & Head Of Engineering at Ember Hiring
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Cousineau is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling front-end platforms, design systems, and high-throughput services. As Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at Ember Hiring and former Director of Engineering at GoDaddy, he led cross-functional teams delivering shared UX platforms and APIs used across thousands of engineers and customer-facing products. He has a strong track record of rescuing and scaling legacy systems, launching microservice-backed products, and instilling engineering discipline at companies from startups to large enterprises. A past OpenJS Foundation board member, he blends practical hands-on development with governance and community stewardship. Based in New York, he pairs a BS in Computer Science with a pragmatic focus on onboarding acquisitions, inner-sourcing, and making shared platforms actually usable for partner teams. Notably, his background spans both deep frontend architecture and operational scaling—areas he frequently punctuates with a knack for witty puns.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
nodejs10
unit-testing10
ruby10
styled-system10
ava10
tdd10
date-fns10
assert10
concurrency10
javascript10
datepicker10
cli10
case-sensitive10
test-runner10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
godaddy/tartufo-node
Jun 2021 - May 2022
npm package shim for https://github.com/godaddy/tartufo
Contributions:7 reviews, 17 commits, 16 PRs in 10 months
waitnpm-packageshimgodaddynodejs
dcousineau/force-case-sensitivity-webpack-plugin
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
webpack-pluginpluginpathscase-sensitivesensitive
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