# Dan Cadden

> Senior Software Engineer at Ro

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dancadden

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ro
Jan 2021 – Present

### Engineering Manager, Platform @ The Muse
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Senior Platform Engineer @ The Muse
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area

### Fullstack Engineer @ The Muse
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area

### Freelance Software Engineer @ La Ligne (Via Avenir)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York
Assisted in the transitioning of La Lagine’s tech stack, a direct-to-consumer fashion startup, between freelance agencies. Responsible for front and backend feature development, and managing 3PL integrations.

### Recurse Fellow @ Recurse Center
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York City
Spent 12 weeks at Recurse Center, a self-directed educational programming retreat, developing a go package manager Gophr (github.com/gophr-pm/gophr).

### Freelance Software Engineer @ Columbia University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York City
Consulted for Columbia and Chris Wiggins (Chief Data Scientist @NYT). Tasked with leading product and engineering for an NSF funded project. Wrote a functional react/redux single page web app. Created a development and production docker infrastructure including build and deployment tools.

### Software Engineer @ Skillshare
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York City
Focused on platform metrics, infrastructure monitoring, and request time optimization. Utilized a unified logging layer to optimize analysis and consumption of platform metrics. Leveraged Amazon Redshift as a centralized aggregation backend. Collaborated with the community team to automate monthly teacher payouts. Eliminated vague unpredictable service failures by creating a dynamic monitoring layer built on Datadog. Designed a context­aware caching strategy slated to reduce page render speeds by up to 50%.

### Fullstack Engineering Intern @ Skillshare
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | New York City
Learned how to create fully functional web features and collaborate with other developers to meet team engineering goals. Independently designed and implemented user onboarding features and engagement tools. Wrote a series of technical documents to help speed up new engineer onboarding. Enlisted the help of the devops team to write a series of web integration tests.

### HackNY Fellow @ hackNY.org
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | New York City
Received mentorship, attended awesome talks from leaders in the NYC tech community, worked at an amazing NYC startup, and lived/programmed with 33 of the best student hackers around.


## Education
### Computer Science
Temple University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-cadden
- Website: http://shikkic.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/shikkic

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Source: https://flows.cv/dancadden
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dancadden/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-23