Dan Linder

dlinder@linderlabs.com

Emeryville, CA

SUMMARY

EXPERIENCE

• Django app accepts datapoints from mesh-networked coin-op amusements, providing customers with a dashboard and sms/email alerting.
• Winner, 2012 Amusement & Music Operators Association Innovator Award.

• Early-stage startup generalist: Frontend, Backend, DevOps.
• Primary focus on credit card processing, ACH payouts, and mobile API.

• Joined skunkworks team to rebuild current.com as a social news aggregator.
• Implemented site search, special focus on result ranking and discoverability.
• Led re-architecting of Current's backend as a REST web service.
• Achieved zero-downtime releases via API backwards-compatibility.
• Envisioned and prototyped a closed caption capture, entity extraction, and search service to present online content relevant to on-air programming.
• Conceptualized an on-air QR code "checkin" feature.
• Working with Will Wright, created StoryMaker API for the TV series Bar Karma.

• Development and sales of the Accessible Wizard, a W3C standards-compliant web publishing tool for Microsoft Office. Spun off as http://www.virtual508.com.
• Fixed XFree86 keyboard accessibility and open-sourced configuration utility.
• Improved staff casenote efficiency via email ingestion and LDAP replication.
• Top 10%; "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students"

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