Dominic Dagradi
Staff Software Engineer at Main Gauche Games
Hamden, United States
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Top SchoolDominic Dagradi is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading engineering work across startups and product teams, currently at Raptor Technologies and co-founder of indie game studio Main Gauche Games. He blends backend systems expertise—restoring and aligning APIs in blockchain-related Chain Core projects—with front-end and full-stack chops demonstrated in open-source contributions to projects like Refugerestrooms and a microblogging UI. Dominic has led platform and architecture moves at companies such as Omada Health and Pogo Financial, including GraphQL migrations, design-system architecture, and React Native customer-facing features. Comfortable switching hats from technical lead to product-facing roles, he also ships creative software products (a Steam release) and brings a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach informed by a CS degree from Carnegie Mellon.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
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Github Skills (24)
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javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
css10
rails10
sc10
go10
api10
scs10
front-end-development10
geocoding10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hotsh/rstat.us
Mar 2011 - Sep 2011
Simple microblogging network based on the ostatus protocol.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:261 commits, 1 issue in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dominic focused primarily on front-end development, contributing significantly to the styling and layout of the user interface. Their work included creating the basic layout and styling for the microblogging network, as well as incorporating a mobile layout. They also addressed styling for the user interface, including various enhancements to the overall design. The commits also include changes to the update form and the addition of CSS styling for elements like the navigation menu.
dokkumicrobloggingprogressive-web-appsostatus
chain/Core
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Chain Core
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 289 commits, 174 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily focused on restoring and updating core functionalities within the Chain Core project. They were responsible for re-establishing missing API endpoints and modifying existing code to align with the API specification. The user also worked on updating the asset API to conform to the specifications including changes to data types and data storage. Furthermore, the user contributed by supporting the build of transactions templates.
ethereumblockchainas-a-servicechainopen-core
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