# Dan Haugh

> Software at Central

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danhaugh

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Central
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
- Automated returns - Implemented automated returns, saving thousands of hours of support time weekly by enabling shoppers to process returns sans support team intervention, while ensuring synchronization of return transactions across multiple systems and compliance flows. Rails
- Unified Metrics Layer - implemented a metrics pipeline to align metrics across data infra, fulfillment, and business operations teams, increasing business partner trust. Snowflake, Rails
Maintained a restricted items platform, including license scan, shopper awareness tooling, and new item class onboarding. Rails, S3
- Onboarded 9 engineers to various teams throughout the fulfillment team while simultaneously running weekly onboarding sessions and knowledge shares
- CRM messaging service - Integrated a messaging service that enabled custom marketing workflows and promotions, sending 1.5MM messages a week. Braze, Flink, Scala
- Amundsen - implemented data quality policies in Amundsen to streamline data science workflows. Python, Docker
- Weight audits training - Implemented weight audit training program, allowing the auditing team to scale up by 500% by leveraging offshore contractors, and audit over 1MM orders a week. React, Rails

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA
- Created incident response bot to follow up with users and triage possible security breaches, reducing the time spent following up on incidents by the investigations team. Python, Kafka
- Automated Security Office Hours scheduling/logistics, saving the security team a significant amount of time. Python, JavaScript, Ember.js
- Wrote a self-service tool pen-testers would use to scan Android apps for possible vulnerabilities. Python
- Implemented monitoring and automatic alerting using LinkedIn’s metrics system to improve visibility of application health

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Brown University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
- Reinforce concepts including Algorithms, Python, Data Structures and Excel by holding weekly office hours 
- Work with professors to enhance classroom experience for students 
- Provide Regular feedback to students through grading and commenting of assignments

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, California
- Implemented and improved user flows on timeline in order to improve user experience using Hack(PHP) and CSS
- Developed a Firefox extension to improve password security in Javascript

### Software Engineering Intern @ Conning
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hartford, CT
- Built a dynamic memory allocator 50% faster than the standard C malloc by implementing a buddy allocation algorithm in C 
- Increased the performance of a matrix transpose operation by 400% by implementing cache‐friendly 
algorithms in C 
- Led an effort to change Version Control System from Subversion to Git by holding presentations and workshops 
- Implemented a multi‐threaded queuing system to access Amazon S3 and EBS storage solutions with high efficiency in C

### Summer Intern @ Otis Elevator Company
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Farmington, CT
- Implemented an international geocoding application that was 95% accurate across various countries in Asia, America and Europe 
- Automated key business processes for the telecommunications team using jQuery, CSS and Microsoft  
- Researched Binary Large Object (BLOB) storage solutions in order to maintain SQL database performance while storing multi‐gigabyte files

### Co-Founder and Lead Guitarist @ Permanent Vacation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### SAT Tutor @ Self Employed
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Connecticut, USA

### Ski Instructor @ Ski Sundown
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | New Hartford, CT

### Civil Engineering Intern @ Town of Farmington Dept. of Engineering
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Responsible for creation, and maintenance of databases. Did various electrical calculations.


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
Brown University

### High School Diploma in First Honors/AP Curriculum
Farmington High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danhaugh

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Last updated: 2026-04-10