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 (9)
spotify8
python6
pip5
packaging4
package-installer2
python-bindings2
elasticsearch2
c-library1
parsing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/McDiff
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:90 commits, 75 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
DackJempsey/DackJempsey
May 2021 - Apr 2026
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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