Danny Polkinhorn
Principal Product Manager at Autodesk
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Polkinhorn is a Principal Product Manager in Developer Enablement with 11 years in product roles and over two decades of experience bridging architecture, design technology, and software delivery. Based in San Francisco, he has progressed through multiple leadership positions at Autodesk—spanning customer success, product delivery, and now developer enablement—where he focuses on making developer workflows more reliable and productive. His background as a CAD manager and design technology director gives him a rare combination of deep domain expertise in architecture and hands-on technical empathy for engineering teams. Danny is comfortable translating complex AEC workflows into scalable product solutions and prioritizes operational excellence and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him to connect customer needs, design practice realities, and technical execution across large organizations. He brings a practitioner’s perspective informed by an M.Arch from Georgia Tech and long experience in both consulting and enterprise software.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
M. Arch Architecture, M. Arch Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (4)
revit9
graphical-programming8
automation6
bim6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dannypolkinhorn/SaveAsNewCentral
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
dannypolkinhorn/RevitServerDiagnostics
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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