Software engineering leader with hands-on experience building products and leading teams at early stage companies and mature organizations. Adept at working across all levels of an organization and product to drive business outcomes. https://danwhitcomb.com

2021 — NowToastPrincipal Software Engineer - Catering & Events

2021 — Now

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Founding engineer on Toast's Catering & Events platform

Shipped three new products as engineering lead: Customer Invoicing, Catering & Events, and Catering Online Ordering

Worked with GTM teams to grow Toast's catering business to over 10,000 users with over 10m in ARR

Led architecture and implementation of the catering platform, and worked across R&D to integrate with the Toast platform

2020 — 2021DriftSr. Staff Software Engineer

2020 — 2021

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Led engineering teams for Drift's chat platform

* Oversaw 10x growth of the Drift chat system and development of Drift's desktop application

* Led team that offset 100k/month in AWS costs

* Led organization-wide initiatives around major data migrations and customer data privacy

* SME of Drift's core Java tooling, drove upgrade of 60+ micro-services to Java 11

2019 — 2020DriftStaff Software Engineer - Tech Lead

2019 — 2020

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

2018 — 2019DriftSr. Software Engineer

2018 — 2019

Boston, MA

2018 — 2018Tive IncSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2018

Tive provides a hardware/software solution to enable real-time visibility of a customer’s supply chain.

Architected and built IoT communication and data processing systems

Designed features for an Angular and ASP.NET web platform and a public REST API

Administered Tive’s AWS infrastructure

Education

Dartmouth College

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

New Trier High School District

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)