Summary
Jerome Dane is a Senior Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building high-performing, fully remote engineering organizations across fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, and travel technology. He combines hands-on delivery and people leadership to scale teams without overbearing process, improving ownership, testing discipline, and cross-functional alignment. Jerome has driven practical adoption of agentic AI workflows that doubled commit velocity and increased production throughput while preserving human judgment and team health. He’s led organizations from individual contributor teams to an 8-team, 23-engineer org responsible for marketplace platforms and enterprise web experiences tied directly to customer and partner growth. Comfort with both front-end and backend tech, plus a history of migrating legacy systems and automating CI/CD, gives him a pragmatic technical lens that complements his hiring and coaching strengths. Based in Charlottesville, he prefers roles where remote-first culture and measurable impact on business outcomes matter most.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Communications, Computer Science, Communications, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Film, Film at Virginia Commonwealth University
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Educational/Instructional Technology, Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Educational/Instructional Technology at University of Virginia
English, French