# Dakota Crowder > Senior Software Engineer Location: Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dakotacrowder A Software Engineer with more than 8 years of experience crafting modern cross-platform applications. My journey has spanned collaborating closely with product teams to create user-centered designs, as well as spearheading technical upgrades that enhance project performance and scalability. Now stepping into the realm of freelancing and exploring entrepreneurship, I'm eager to take on opportunities where I can direct my technical expertise into building high impact value-driven software. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat Jan 2024 – Present | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Developing a new Edge Management solution - see more here! https://github.com/flightctl/flightctl ### Senior Software Engineer @ Policygenius Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Durham, North Carolina, United States - Orchestrated a high-performing technical team in the conceptualization, design, and development of a cutting-edge platform, reshaping the life insurance landscape with modernized solutions. - Drove critical company initiatives by leading the integration of new life insurance carriers and their product offerings into our platform, expanding market reach and ensuring comprehensive client coverage. - Revolutionized life insurance application procedures, architecting and implementing transformative enhancements that reduced application fulfillment time from weeks to minutes. - Leveraged internal survey data to craft and implement tailored strategies for optimizing the development lifecycle and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, fostering agility and accelerating product delivery. ### Senior Software Engineer @ TransLoc Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Durham, North Carolina, United States ### Software Engineer @ TransLoc Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area I've worked on breadth of tech at TransLoc. The backend architecture is microservice based (predominantly Python and Go services) and that keeps things interesting. I've gotten a chance to build out some new services like 'notify' - a service to facilitate sending sms/push notifications via Twilio. I've worked on a variety of administrative reporting functionality - turns out transit data is actually pretty cool! The frontend is react-redux based and its been fun further developing those skills. I'm currently working on building out an external facing API for clients to use. At TransLoc I've gotten a chance to work with some awesome technology, including dynamic vehicle scheduling algorithms for microtransit services. Think the travelling salesman problem, just with a few more variables. I've also gotten to carry out some updates to the core authentication systems, preparing for a better - hopefully more secure :) - future. Working on technology that helps people move in the "real world" has been immensely satisfying. ### Web Developer @ ReverbNation Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Cary, NC I built modern web applications using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (Angular / React), MySQL, Go, and other technologies. Worked on a migration of over 30k music releases and 180k audio tracks between distribution partners by automating XML transmission processes. Constructed an email messaging feature in a React Native mobile application. Managed updates & deployment of a dockerized Angular 2 app. Transitioned overly complex backend Ruby code towards frontend agnostic RESTful apis. ### Web Development Intern @ ReverbNation Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Aided in developing an internal email framework Built and updated emails Updated internal documentation for ReverbNation.com code, built and updated documentation for the internal email framework Added new site features and performed bugfixes ### Industry Services Intern (Product Management) @ ReverbNation Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Durham, NC Created mockups and participated in actively developing new product features Coordinated with team members to ensure timely delivery of product features Researched various technologies and coordinated possible partnerships for social media tracking Oversaw a video contest that resulted in over 100 submissions that cumulated in over 3.5m impressions on social media over two weeks ### Support and Operations Intern @ ReverbNation Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Durham, NC Interacted with customers on a daily basis to provide an enjoyable support experience with any issues they had Tracked digital distribution releases and interacted with artists to provide them with updates concerning their releases Vetted payments to prevent fraud ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dakotacrowder --- Source: https://flows.cv/dakotacrowder JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dakotacrowder/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22