Danny Wolf
Founding Software Engineer at AutoPallet Robotics
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Wolf is a founding software engineer with 14 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure and productivity tools, now leading engineering at AutoPallet Robotics in San Francisco. He has driven large-scale migrations—most notably a multi-year monorepo transition to Bazel and a Python 2→3 port at Skydio—that cut CI and build times dramatically while reducing boilerplate via AST-based tooling. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he’s contributed to open-source projects from a React typeahead component to HubSpot’s Singularity scheduler, improving test coverage and log/notification handling. He pairs low-level systems work (FUSE filesystem in Rust, build systems) with pragmatic UX and tooling improvements, and often focuses on removing developer toil so teams can move faster. An engineer who jokes that “my code flies sometimes,” he blends robotics pedigree with a knack for scaling developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Engineering with a concentration in Robotics, Bachelor's degree Engineering with a concentration in Robotics at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringComputer Science, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (10)
e-mail10
component-development10
javas10
logging10
javascript10
typeahead10
react10
hashmap10
java10
mesos9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HubSpot/Singularity
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Scheduler (HTTP API and webapp) for running Mesos tasks—long running processes, one-off tasks, and scheduled jobs. #hubspot-open-source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:233 commits, 37 PRs, 215 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Danny contributed to the Singularity project by implementing and modifying features related to task email notifications and log management. The commits show changes to configuration settings for email log tails, the addition of code to handle log file access, and refactoring of code related to task directories. They also made code changes to ordering of data using LinkedHashMap and to the handling of LogrotateTemplateContext.
apischedulerscheduled-jobslongmesos
fmoo/react-typeahead
May 2016 - May 2016
Pure react-based typeahead and typeahead-tokenizer
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Danny primarily focused on enhancing the `react-typeahead` component. Their contributions included adding new props like `filterOptions` and `inputDisplayOption`, which provide greater customization. They also implemented tests for these newly added functionalities. Furthermore, the user refactored the code by renaming `filterOptions` to `searchOptions` to better align with the component's behavior.
typeaheadreactpure-reacttokenizer
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