Danielle Yasso
Staff Software Engineer at Calm
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDanielle Yasso is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building backend product and platform systems at fast-moving tech startups. She’s led engineering efforts at Calm and Change.org, driving cross-team projects, technical architecture, and mentorship while shipping Elixir, Node.js, and JavaScript services in production. Danielle has a track record of translating complex policy and product shifts into reliable implementations—from GDPR account protections to large-scale UI migrations—and she helped create an engineering growth ladder used for reviews and hiring. Her background spans hands-on full-stack work, technical leadership, and even early biotech research, reflecting a curiosity for applied problem solving across domains.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
39 credit hours, Computer Science & Web Development, 4.0, 39 credit hours, Computer Science & Web Development, 4.0 at City College of San FranciscoBA, Chemistry, Italian, Magna Cum Laude, BA, Chemistry, Italian, Magna Cum Laude at Vanderbilt University9 CEUs, Web Design & Multimedia Studies, 9 CEUs, Web Design & Multimedia Studies at SFSU College of Extended Learning
ItalianGithub contributions (1)
DanielleYasso/where-the-truck
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:352 commits in 1 month
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