Etan Berkowitz
Founding Engineer at Verdance
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEtan Berkowitz is a founding engineer with 12 years of experience building product-focused front-end and full-stack systems, currently leading engineering work at Verdance after senior product engineering roles at Plaid and Salesforce. Based in Seattle, he blends startup grit and enterprise discipline—having moved from mentor and consultant roles into founding a company and even moonlighting as a “Freelance Rocket Scientist.” His background in individualized studies at NYU (psychology, sociology, digital new media) informs a human-centered approach to product and UX, while practical experience shipping at scale spans payments and developer-facing products. Notable for a playful, ambitious voice around long-lived, interoperable systems, he also contributes to public service technology as a front-end engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Gallatin School of Individualized Study Psychology Sociology and Digital New Media, Gallatin School of Individualized Study Psychology Sociology and Digital New Media at New York University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (100)
zero-configuration10
hl710
clarity10
developer-tools10
uswds10
build-tools10
plaid10
create-react-app10
react10
editor9
react-component9
transaction9
visual-studio9
microsoft9
accessibility9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
etanb/etanb.github.io
Nov 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
ArikTorkelson/lunchbox
May 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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