# Dave Miner

> Software Engineer

Location: Tampa, Florida, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/daveminer

Technical lead with over a decade of experience in developing and leading software solutions. Skilled in a wide array of technologies including Elixir, React.js, Rust, Python, and Node.js, with a strong background in scalable architecture and web3.

Proven expertise in GraphQL, API design, and full-stack development, with a track record of driving significant improvements in system efficiency and user experience.

## Work Experience
### Senior Engineer @ blockit
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | McKinney, Texas, United States
- Company hackathon winner; reduced First Meaningful Paint by 20x for admins by GraphQL schema refactor
- Led a team to implement custom integrations for the largest client to date
- Integrated EMR systems via HL7 to support appointment booking and management for new and existing clients

### Owner / Lead Developer @ Halyard Systems
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Tampa, FL
Halyard Systems offers bespoke software development and consulting services.

- Delivered a greenfield web platform on a 1-month deadline for a market research client that manages
surveys and routes survey respondents. Typescript, Fastify, Heroku.
- Increased revenue for a client's online store by 40% month-over-month through SEO optimization and growth engineering efforts
- Implemented a spatial swap arbitrage bot on Binance Smart Chain for UniswapV2-compatible decentralized exchanges

### Senior Software Engineer @ Papa
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Tampa, Florida, United States
Product-focused technical lead supporting high volume, user-facing applications.

- Mentor other engineers across the stack
- Conduct technical rounds of interviews for backend and fullstack engineers of all levels
- Performed interim (~3 months) management duties for a team of 7 engineers
- Replaced a Fountain.io client integration with a greenfield signup application using React and GraphQL via Absinthe on the existing Elixir monolith
- Worked with Product team to reduce signup and activation CAC by 29% QoQ via signup application improvement driven my Mixpanel conversion data
- Processed over 95,000 background checks via client integration to a SaaS provider
- Improved the efficiency of CustomerIO campaigns by 60% by building a highly scalable ETL process for customer data management using Oban Workflow.
- Redesigned the company's Twilio client interface for improved customer communication and error handling
- Created a React shared library npm package (Storybook-based) to leverage MUI for consistent design, set CI-driven standards for a11y and integrate i18n
- Built a system to maintain an automatically curated list of Twilio-leased phone numbers to cover a dynamic list of area codes
- Production support and implementation of metrics/observability via Datadog, Datadog RUM, Segment
- Built two proof of concept identity verification SaaS integrations (Stripe Identity, etc.) and integrated the chosen one into production

### Senior Software Engineer @ Fanatics, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
Tech lead for initiatives to design build and maintain a Node.js GraphQL server and custom job scheduler service in Golang
- Worked on a medium-size team to design, build, and support an interactive product catalog as a React.js SPA

### Software Engineer @ Fanatics, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
Developed, implemented, and supported scripts, interfaces, configuration and automation upon the GoAnywhere commercial platform to support retail EDI functionality.

Design and developed a Python (Flask) API to provide HTTP endpoints for a legacy IBM Informix database.

### Senior Systems Engineer @ ACT
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Iowa City, Iowa Area
Participated in a highly Agile environment building HTTP APIs related to registration and session management of ACT test takers and proctors.

### Software Developer @ Leepfrog Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Coralville, IA
Worked with product tech lead to develop and support a static web application that allowed users to explore  a university's academic program requirements.

### Software Engineer @ General Dynamics Information Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Coralville, IA
Designed and delivered full-stack web application features for FAFSA on the web.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Science
University of Iowa


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dave-w-miner
- GitHub: https://www.github.com/daveminer
- Website: https://profile.codersrank.io/user/daveminer

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Last updated: 2026-03-22