Dan Whitcomb
Principal Software Engineer - Catering Events
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Whitcomb is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Principal Software Engineer for Catering & Events at Toast in Boston. He was a founding engineer on Toast's Catering & Events platform, delivering Customer Invoicing, Catering & Events, and Catering Online Ordering, and partnering with GTM teams to scale the catering business to over 10,000 users and more than $5M ARR. He has a track record of architecting and shipping cross-functional platforms, aligning R&D with product goals to drive measurable business outcomes. Previously at Drift, he led teams through 10x growth of the chat system, delivered a major AWS cost saving initiative, and spearheaded data migrations and privacy efforts while upgrading 60+ microservices to Java 11. His background spans IoT data processing at Tive, cloud/security automation at MITRE, and VxRail engineering at VMware, reflecting a hands-on leader who can fuse systems-level thinking with practical delivery. He earned a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and is based in the Boston area.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Dartmouth CollegeNew Trier High School District
Github Skills (35)
aurora7
database-management6
java6
migration6
database5
sql5
mysql5
continuous-deployment5
database-migrations5
postgresql4
migrations4
lightstep4
continuous-delivery4
devops4
flyway4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cosanlab/emote
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
danrwhitcomb/Monarch
Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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