# Dan Gilligan > Engineering @ Total Wine Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dangilligan I help build products that solve real problems—from enterprise workforce management platforms to cybersecurity deployments to data infrastructure. I founded Basil in 2020 and currently lead product and engineering. We serve orgs like ZoomInfo, Bose, and Away Travel with our workforce management platform. Before starting Basil, I spent two years at Anomali as a CSM/Technical Account Manager, helping security teams at banks and enterprises deploy and operationalize their threat intelligence programs. Earlier at Wayfair, I built data infrastructure and customer-facing features for millions of users. I'm comfortable across the full stack--product strategy, engineering execution, and working with customers to understand what they actually need. I've been the solo engineer and I've worked in large organizations. Mostly startups. What matters most to me is building things people use and shipping fast. Recently completed Techstars NYC Fall '24. Boston-based. RPI alum. Always happy to talk tech, security, or product. ## Work Experience ### Lead Software Engineer @ Total Wine & More Jan 2026 – Present | Washington DC-Baltimore Area ### Head of Product & Engineering (CTO) @ Basil Jan 2020 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Founded and scaled Basil, a CRM and work management platform helping teams deploy and manage their partner and fractional networks. • Built and scaled Basil to enterprise use, now handling seven figures in yearly volume • Owned everything from roadmap and architecture to customer onboarding • Shipped fast, learned from users, and kept iterating ### Co-founder | Basil @ Techstars – NYC '24 Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States - Selected to participate in the competitive Techstars NYC accelerator Fall '24 class - Worked closely with mentors, investors, and industry experts on product development, go-to-market strategy, and fundraising - Refined our value proposition, iterated product, and grew revenue to seven figures processed and 3X'd the user base - Delivered investor pitches and developed long-term strategies for scaling and growth ### Technical Account Manager @ Anomali Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts Worked as a technical account manager (CSM) for Anomali, a threat intelligence platform provider & integrator for dozens of Fortune 1000 companies spanning all industry (Banking / Fintech, Payroll, e-commerce, Government & NGOs). My primary role was helping cybersecurity engineers and analysts across SOC / IR / Network & Intel teams to solve their biggest intel & infrastructure hurdles to help them mature their security programs. This often involved training teams, engaging program directors / CISOs as well as fulfilling custom engineering requests, including general and custom integrations across SIEM, Firewall, IDS / IPS tools, writing connectors & more. ### Infrastructure Engineer @ Wayfair Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts I did full-stack work for the Analytics/BI department, with projects spanning from sysadmin to web and product development work. Projects included building out Wayfair's analytics platform (WARP) as well as its data warehouse (DW) processing system. Our work impacted the entire Wayfair org as well as suppliers, all who required the latest reporting every day (or hour). ### Software Engineer @ Wayfair Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area I initially worked on Wayfair's Social Media platform by helping to build out the favorites and customer profile pages with an emphasis on driving a higher conversion and AOV rate. I also worked in the Media team managing Revive ad server infrastructure, monitoring revenue and ad performance across the site and building dashboards for the media team. I then spent some time working as an engineering liaison to our business intelligence department by analyzing the company's clickstream/custom session data to build out Tableau dashboard reports for product managers. After a reorg, I assumed the role of Wayfair's sole engineer for on-site acquisition team where my primary responsibility was to build out campaign management tools for our marketing and design platform teams. I was also tasked with setting the pace/estimates of the roadmap for the company's senior product management so that we could best choose projects that would have immediate impact, i.e. help drive a higher repeat customer rate. This frequently involved a lot of A/B testing of hypotheses in order to identify potential pain points or to validate work put into a project. These initiatives included: - Redesigning product landing ad pages to reduce the overall site bounce rate - Entry and exit email capture campaign tools - Optimizing the site's mobile web and customer on-boarding experience - Category-specific banner ads designed to boost sales via call centers ### Software Engineer Intern @ Wayfair Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 I developed an in-house, localization platform for translators and engineers, alike, to manage the uploading and translation of customer-facing messaging based on language/regional dialect as well as brand-specific language maintained by the company. This helped, in particular, with investing more in the company's internationalization strategy in Europe by dramatically reducing the resource overhead and time it took to launch various business initiatives. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Information Technology & Web Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Administration and Management, Management Information Systems Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dg1lls - Portfolio: https://www.basil.so/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=profile&utm_campaign=brand --- Source: https://flows.cv/dangilligan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dangilligan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31