Daniel Hale

Overview

20 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Brightline Group, where I lead the web team. Brought on-call pages for web down from 14 a week to 1. Cut p99 latency on the web services from 395ms to 129ms. Most at home with React and GraphQL. Learning woodworking.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Apr 2023 - Present
   Brightline Group · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Led the move of 154 screens to a shared React component library.
   • Grew the web team from 5 to 28 engineers.
2. Engineering Manager

   Dec 2019 - Apr 2023
   Reddit · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 525ms to 40ms.
   • Cut the main bundle by 70% and got LCP under 1.8 seconds.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
   Boeing · 3 yr · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Wrote the CSS service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
   Zoom · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Cut the main bundle by 39% and got LCP under 2.6 seconds.
5. Staff Frontend Engineer

   Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
   Ford · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Wrote the CSS service that now handles 34 million requests a day.

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Education

1. Johns Hopkins University

   MS, Computer Engineering
   2009 - 2011
2. Boston University

   BS, Computer Engineering
   2001 - 2005