Danny Nelson
Engineering Lead at Zipline
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDanny Nelson is an engineering leader in Seattle with 11 years of experience building and scaling production systems across ecommerce, supply chain, and logistics. He blends hands-on software craftsmanship with people leadership—driving performance improvements like cutting fraudulent domain orders from 90% to 24% and reducing warehouse order defects by 65% through system selection and process redesign. As an engineering manager and lead he has shipped high-throughput microservices and real-time WMS/TMS platforms that processed millions of orders, while also improving hiring funnels and team engagement metrics. He’s comfortable optimizing both user-facing conversion funnels (A/B testing on Next.js) and low-latency APIs (Fastly edge caching to sub-75ms lookups). Known for pragmatic algorithmic thinking, he implemented bin-packing and route-aware pick optimizations that materially reduced labor and space requirements. Danny combines operational rigor with product-focused experimentation to turn complex supply-chain problems into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Southern CaliforniaSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack ReactorNorthwestern University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (104)
isbn10
directive10
traversal10
todomvc10
chai10
scanner9
mongoose9
angular-universal9
barcodes9
ava9
flow-based-programming9
testing9
ssh-keys9
factory9
hierarchical9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PassFort/json-schema-to-flow-type
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
goodeggs/merge-json-schemas
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
Merge JSON schemas.
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 4 months
json-schemasmergeschemasjson-schemajson-merge
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