Summary
Lincoln Daniel is a Senior Software Engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of full‑stack experience specializing in JavaScript ecosystems (Node.js, React, Vue, Angular) and a strong focus on user-centered reliability and efficiency. He has led frontend teams and launched resilient, high-throughput systems—most recently building a next‑gen declarative chat used every few seconds across users and stabilizing coach platforms during a high-profile merger. As founder/CTO of Penname and creator of popular publications (and the Java for Humans book), he combines product-led growth with hands‑on engineering to scale platforms to 100K+ users and 24K MAU. His background spans large consumer products (Medium, goPuff) and startups, and he brings practical expertise in observability, automated UI QA, and developer tooling that measurably reduces critical errors. An underrated strength: he translates developer work into organic growth and content strategies that amplify technical products beyond code.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Cohort 7 Startup Fundraising - Venture Capital, Cohort 7 Startup Fundraising - Venture Capital at Founder Gym
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at State University of New York at Oswego
Strath Haven High School
Spanish