Dan Schuman

I am a full-stack engineer based in Portland, Oregon. I have many years of experience creating and delivering quality software on professional teams. When programming, I focus on code clarity and simplicity. When working with others, I shoot for a no-ego mindset.

I have expertise in frontend development architecture, and have developed effective patterns with React and associated libraries. I also have substantial backend and native software experience as will, including: Node, Golang, Java, React Native, Objective-C, C++, Ruby, and PHP. Across my career, I have worked in numerous cloud and on-premises environments, along with bundled software.

Skills

Expertise in Javascript and TypeScript
Over ten years of experience across small and large engineering organizations
Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new codebases, languages and frameworks
Creating clean, organized code, focusing on minimizing cognitive load
Communicating ideas clearly, both spoken and in code

Experience

2021 - Present — Blend

Software Engineer, IC5
- On-call rotation responsibilities within mature, restricted production environments
- Working with a production microservice architecture and multi-repository codebases
- Working with environments using both bespoke and industry-standard tools, including: Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Splunk and Datadog
- Improving services in many stages of life, from legacy to greenfield
Lender Foundation Team
- Co-lead effort to fully migrate away from Angular to React
- Designed and implemented SMS integration into mortgage borrower applications
- Internally migrated lender pipeline systems to separate a service and ElasticSearch configuration
Configurable Platform Engine Team
- Contributed improvements to Configurable Platform, a software service for visually programming multi-user, multi-role banking workflows such as credit card applications
- Internal improvements to performance and architecture
- Feature design and implementation for various "Builder" improvements

2021 — Shortwave

Founder / Engineer
- Semi-serious pet-project ephemeral voice message mobile app
- Solely created Shortwave apps for Android and iOS
- Handled all aspects of the business and product, including business formation, product feature design, application publishing and user testing

2018 - 2021 — SimSpace

Frontend Domain Architect
- Established SimSpace's Frontend Architecture organization domain
- Established and evolved engineering processes to improve our codebase architecture and pay down tech debt
- Managed a team of architects, delegating goals and responsibilities
Team Lead
- Team leadership and management within a fast-growing organization
- Balancing planning and agile processes with changing requirements and critical deadlines
- Helped grow SimSpace Frontend from 8 to 25 developers
Lead Engineer, Frontend
- React.js frontend development for a large existing product suite
- Incremental conversion to TypeScript with functional libraries

2017 - 2018 — Instrument

Senior Developer, Products & Innovation Team
- Greenfield frontend architecture in React/Redux/TypeScript
- Created CI build and deployment environments
- Bootstrapped Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS via kops
- Developed backend microservices in Node and Golang

2016 - 2017 — Independent Contractor

Instrument (Confidential client)
- Supported ongoing React project work
- Created interactive visual prototypes
React/Redux Application (Confidential client, subcontract)
- Created a greenfield single-page application in React/Redux to manage custom application data
- Features include: API CRUD, single-page routing, interesting visual interaction and unique data modeling

2016 — Hack Oregon

React.js Course Instructor
- Developed course materials for teaching React to students with varying skill levels
- Held a three-hour class, twice a week for eight weeks, helping students learn React in a hands-on environment

2014 - 2016 — Extensis

Full Stack Engineer

Front-end Javascript development in React and Angular
NodeJS/Express server development
Java server development
Worked with a medium-sized Agile/Scrum team

Lead Engineer - React/Electron

Lead bootstrapping and development of React client as a Flash replacement
Project was dual-target for web and desktop application
Technologies included React, Redux and Electron
Contributed to open source along the way

AngularJS Engineer

Developed greenfield Angular applications to integrate into existing products
Integrated Grunt and Gulp build systems into Ant build systems and Jenkins CI server
Engineered mock environments for testing Angular applications outside of integration points
Developed style and component patterns for organized code scaling within a medium-sized team

2012 - 2013 — Independent Contractor

Full Stack Engineer
- Managed ongoing communications with multiple clients
- Cultivated new business relationships
- Maintained a perfect track record with clients by over-delivering on estimated times and product quality
ALO Audio — aloaudio.com
- Full site migration from CS-Cart to Magento
- Front-end implementation and iteration of design
- Cloud platform architecture and deployment system
- Custom module development
- Custom scalable architecture to handle variable traffic
Other Projects
- SiftScience Magento Extension
- Sunrise Learning Network
- Relapse.com

2010 - 2012 — Wind Up Pixel

Co-founder, Lead Engineer
- Worked on a remote team to create project analysis and proposals
- Lead others in development projects
- Assisted developers with technical problems and questions while working on own projects