Jack Dempsey
Head Of Engineering at Dandy
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Dempsey is a Head of Engineering based in San Francisco with nine years of leadership experience scaling systems and organizations through hypergrowth. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to senior leadership at companies including Instacart, Creator, Fin.com, and Dandy, combining technical depth with people and process leadership. Jack excels at turning early-stage product engineering into reliable, high-velocity platforms, and has operated as both entrepreneur and engineer — co-founding a hardware brand and advising startups while leading large teams. His background in mathematics and computer science from Georgetown underpins a pragmatic, data-informed approach to architecture and delivery. Notably, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade execution, comfortable jumping back into code when it accelerates outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Georgetown UniversityPhillips Academy Andover
Github Skills (17)
spotify-api9
spotify8
packaging7
installer7
api7
python7
pip6
get-started5
elastic3
elasticsearch3
package-installer2
parser1
strings1
python-bindings1
snappy1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/McDiff
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:90 commits, 75 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
DackJempsey/DackJempsey
May 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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