Ovidiu Dan
Vice President Of Engineering at Visa
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOvidiu Dan is a seasoned engineering leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling payment, search, and real-time systems; he currently serves as Vice President of Engineering at Visa after leading Authorize.net’s engineering organization that handles $200B in annual payment volume. He combines deep hands-on expertise—from founding startups that delivered novel DNS and media platforms to architecting low-latency backends and launching AI-driven products like Skype’s GPT‑4 Copilot—with enterprise leadership at Microsoft and Visa. A PhD candidate in computer science and serial founder, he brings both research rigor and entrepreneurial instincts to product-focused teams. Based in Redmond, he runs his own software consultancy while steering large multi-continent teams, often translating cutting-edge AI and distributed-systems work into consumer-facing scale. Notably, his career features repeated wins: startups acquired, mission-critical systems deployed at web-scale, and billions in payments processed under his operational purview.
18 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology at Inholland University of Applied SciencesPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Lehigh UniversityColegiul National "Alexandru Papiu Ilarian"
Romanian, English, Hungarian
Github Skills (200)
iana10
lda10
browser10
neo4j10
html10
topic-modeling10
static-site-generator10
ssg10
vercel10
privacy10
oauth10
fasttext10
hosting10
google-home10
word2vec10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/openscraping-lib-csharp
Jan 2016 - Aug 2020
Turn unstructured HTML pages into structured data. The OpenScraping library can extract information from HTML pages using a JSON config file with xPath rules. It can scrape even multi-level complex objects such as tables and forum posts. This is the C# version.
Contributions:74 commits, 22 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years 7 months
csharpscrapexpath
zmarty/ScamperTracerouteParser
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes in 7 months
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