Dan Linder
Emeryville, CA 94608
+1-217-649-7733

dlinder@linderlabs.com

http://linderlabs.com/dlinder
https://twitter.com/dlinder
https://linkedin.com/in/dlinder1000


Recent Experience

January 2012 - Present
Linder Engineering Works https://meshnetdata.com
Partner, Software Engineer
- Django app w/ API to accept datapoints from mesh networked coinop amusements,
  provide web dashboard to customers for monitoring and sms/email alerts
- Winner, 2012 Amusement & Music Operators Association Innovator Award


February 2011 - Present
StyleSeat, Inc. https://styleseat.com
Senior Software Engineer
- Early stage startup: scheduling, CRM, and e-commerce for beauty professionals
- Primary focus on mobile sync API, e-commerce, and Credit Card Processing


April 2007 - February 2011
Current TV http://current.com

Manager, Backend Software Engineering
- Led re-architecture of the current.com backend as a REST web service
- Refactored search as a tiered web service to match new architecture
- Led design of actively-expired caching layer
- Zero downtime releases: rolling deployment of backwards-compatible modules,
  database migrations applied across hierarchy of slaves with failover
- Envisioned and prototyped closed caption search system to present relevant
  content in time with the Current broadast or across the wider cable news
- Conceptualized on-air QR code "checkin" feature

Web Software Engineer
Lead Backend Software Engineer
- Joined skunkworks team to rebuild current.com as a social news aggregator
- Built "clipper" feature enabling extraction of multimedia assets
- Implemented site search, special focus on evolution of result ranking


August 2000 - April 2007
University of Illinois

Software Development Specialist, Disability Resources and Educational Services
- Led development of the Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard, made
  sales calls, provided support; spun off as http://www.virtual508.com
- Standards-compliant, accessible HTML from MS Office via a wizard interface

Graduate Assistant, Disability Resources and Educational Services
- Repaired XFree86 keyboard access fatures and wrote a configuration-
  compatible replacement for the Sun AccessX utility
- Improved staff efficiency in casenote system via direct email ingestion
  and campus LDAP autocompletion and replication
- Contributed to the Accessible Web Browser: annotated voice output, seven key
  navigation system, dynamic CSS selection, table linearization

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science
- Lectured, held office hours, led lab sections
- Modernized embedded systems lab curriculum for better POSIX compliance
- Ranked in top 10% of all Teaching Assistants, Fall 2000 and 2001; included in
  the "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students"


Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Master's, Computer Science, May 2002
- BS, Computer Science, May 2000; Honors


Memberships
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Long Now Foundation


Keywords
Python, Django, Celery, AWS, RDS, EC2, RabbitMQ, Solr, Lucene, Java,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, memcached, REST, API, git, svn, Linux, NetBSD