# Dan Metzler

> Avid freediver and surfer with a knack for software.

Location: San Diego, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danmetzler

I love to build and have a knack for decomposing complex projects into bitesize pieces which are easy to design, develop, validate, and iterate upon. 

I've owned the architecture, development, and maintenance of numerous large projects responsible for tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue. Impact is what gets me going -- specifically, seeing how my work affects users and alters the business's trajectory.

On the technical side, I have extensive experience diagnosing and resolving complex problems across all layers of enterprise-scale cloud software stacks (professional experience with Java, Python, NodeJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, SQL, GCP, and AWS; personal experience with React Native, Ruby, C, C++, and PHP). 

I'm also an avid surfer and freediver with a love for cooking and a newly-enabled obsession with coffee.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ NerdWallet
Jan 2023 – Present | San Diego, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Flock Freight
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Diego, California, United States
- Led a team of 4 engineers responsible for introducing per-lane contracted rates to the Flock platform
- Owned the experiment-driven design and development of an automated bidding system enabling scalable revenue growth without corresponding headcount increases 
- Designed and implemented a second-price sealed bid auction mechanism for load fulfillment (winner of both the Managers' Choice and Developers' Choice awards at the first Flock Hackathon)
- Trained and mentored new hires from intern to staff level
- Identified and automated expensive on-call duties
- Authored playbooks to allow simple on-call tasks to be offloaded from engineers to a technical support team
- Played a key role in improving hiring diversity by advocating for top-level OKRs
- Helped rework interview prompts, processes, and scoring rubrics to create a more fair and streamlined evaluation
- Identified, referred, and ultimately hired top-tier candidates

### Software Engineer @ Flock Freight
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Diego, California, United States
- Designed and implemented automations with an impact on annual revenue well into the double-digit millions
- Reworked internal workflows and user experiences, increasing user engagement by up to 700% in some cases
- SME for Carrier search, Carrier compliance integration, coverability
- Strong track record of quickly delivering high-impact projects while balancing product needs with technical constraints
- Raised awareness of UX design principles and evangelized human-centered design
- 13th Product Engineer

### Software Engineer @ ServiceNow
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Contributed to identification and design of organization-wide projects
- Received Scrum Master certification; helped decompose large, multi-quarter projects into bite-sized Agile stories 
- Worked on a wide range of security problems, gaining experience with some of the unique security considerations faced by huge and rapidly growing cloud companies

### Associate Software Engineer @ ServiceNow
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater San Diego Area
- Learned to manage ambiguity, tracing complex bugs from the service layer down to hardware resources
- Honed time management and prioritization skills balancing a full course-load at UCSD with engineering work

### Software Engineering Intern @ ServiceNow
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area
- Gained experience navigating and maintaining enterprise-scale codebases in multiple languages
- Learned to write effective, atomic unit tests and automated integration tests
- Developed an appreciation for the art of self-documenting code

### Software Engineer @ Namazu Studios LLC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area
- Learned to work effectively in a small, highly experienced cross-functional team
- Translated new UI wireframes into Angular components
- Revised existing interfaces to establish a consistent design language based on customer feedback and Material Design guidelines
- Built and maintained a library of reusable, modular components

### Lead Software Developer @ Map2Next
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area
- Designed, built, and maintained MVP mobile app, RESTful API, data mining algorithms, and data science tools as the sole technical team member
- Oversaw post-MVP engineering and data science hiring
- Supervised development and implementation of machine learning models
- Managed migration from monolithic LAMP stack to a more scalable three-layer architecture

### Freelance Full Stack Developer @ Self-employed
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Worked on a wide variety of small contract-based projects for local companies, startups at the University of Michigan, and remote clients found through the Elance/Upwork platform
- Gained experience with natural language processing, API integration, web frameworks and development paradigms, and rapid prototyping


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Economics
UC San Diego

### Minor in Computer Science
UC San Diego


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22