Summary
Danny Roa is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building web and mobile applications, particularly using Python, Django, and Android. Based in Mountain View, he has shipped consumer-facing Android features at Foursquare and RemindHQ and built testing infrastructure and beta programs to improve release quality. As a founder of an Android app shop, he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on implementation and team-level process improvements. His specialty in bridging web backends (Python/Django) with rich mobile clients gives him a pragmatic full-stack perspective. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into testable, maintainable systems that scale. Outside of product work, he brings a continuous-improvement mindset evident in the tools and processes he’s built to make releases safer and faster.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer