# Daniel Bennett

> Full Stack Software Engineer

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielbennett

I'm a mission-driven software engineer with a background in early stage startups.

My personal mission is to build technology that helps people live healthier, happier, and more productive lives.

👨‍💻 Check out my engineering blog here! https://codewithdaniel.medium.com

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Blueprint
Jan 2023 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### React Native Engineer (Volunteer) @ Tyndale House, Cambridge
Jan 2018 – Present
• Built a Bible app for iOS and Android using React/Node.js/Typescript, supporting 15k+ MAU
• Co-authored BibleEngine, a Javascript Bible library, powering Bible apps with 110k+ total downloads
• Full open source code available at: github.com/tyndale/stepmobile, github.com/tyndale/BibleEngine

Links:
• Android store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tyndale.stepbible
• iOS store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/step-bible/id1476903313

### Software Engineer @ Abide
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Rearchitected user accounts in Go/MongoDB, enabling development for 5 projects that were infeasible before
• Increased revenue by 105k by building backend support for donations by integrating with Stripe
• Led product/design teams in writing user stories and building played progress tracking feature for 500k MAU app
• Increase sales by re-engaging with users who abandoned their cart in the middle of donations checkout page
• Leveraged open-source BibleEngine code for a Bible feature, growing Bible retention to 208%
• Championed test automation, boosting API endpoint test coverage from 13% to 94%
• Upgraded GCP CI pipeline to run Golang Docker integration tests, API E2E tests, and Jest tests

### Software Engineer @ Wisely Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Designed, implemented and supported WiFi integrations systems which earned over 200k in new ARR
• Migrated guest record exporter to AWS SQS / Elasticsearch instead of SQL, improving throughput by 100x
• Composed marketing automation system (microservices/Vue.js/PostgreSQL), netting over 100k in ARR
• Launched internal tools for our field team, which reduced average restaurant onboarding time by 50%

### Software Engineer @ Clinc, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Designed interactive search and AI response editing features using Vue/JS/Typescript
• Constructed well-defined, testable REST API routes using Django/Python
• Expanded test coverage using Selenium/Mocha/Python/Gitlab CI/Bash

### iOS Engineering Intern @ Clinc, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Ann Arbor, MI
• Worked   for   Ann   Arbor   AI   startup   on   a   Siri-type   voice   assistant   app   for   spending   advice
• Created   beautiful,   intuitive   views   programmatically   and   through   Interface   Builder
• Learned   Core   Animation,   Core   Data   and   Secure   Storage   frameworks

### Programmer @ UM Solar and Heliospheric Research Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ann Arbor, MI
• Completed major refactoring of a data validation testing program for MESSENGER space program
• Wrote a bash script to automate running of multiple validation processes
• Collaborated with coworkers to create a wireframe for a voter engagement app

### Research Assistant @ UM Solar & Heliospheric Research Group
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Ann Arbor, MI
• Developed an algorithm to find energy signatures in data from the MESSENGER space probe
• Analyzed magnetospheric flux data using IDL, a scripting language similar to Matlab
• Devised a graph template for displaying three-dimensional arrays of flux data

### Volunteer @ West Michigan Refugee Education and Cultural Center
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Grand Rapids, MI
• Created lesson plans for an ESL summer program
• Presented a talk for volunteers on best practices for tutoring refugee students
• Tutored students in math and English


## Education
### BSE in Computer Science Engineering
University of Michigan
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### English Literature
University of Oxford
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danbennett42
- Website: https://medium.com/@codewithdaniel

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Last updated: 2026-03-22