Summary
Danny Welstad is a senior software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience taking products from 0 to 1 and owning features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and infrastructure. He’s been a key early hire at Curated, shipping high-impact systems from a content marketplace that drove strong SEO growth to a company-wide LLM prompt testing tool built on RAG, and now continues his craft at Ramp. Danny excels at cross-functional collaboration with product and design, re-architecting onboarding and workflow systems that cut hiring costs and time-to-first-shift by more than half. He combines an engineering physics background with immersive bootcamp training, blending analytical rigor and practical software craftsmanship. Notably, he prefers deeply collaborative environments and repeatedly demonstrates the ability to move fast while building production-safe AI features and developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Front End Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Front End Web Development Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics at Whitworth University