Dakota Sanchez
Software Engineer at LaunchDarkly
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDakota Sanchez is a senior software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and backend APIs across languages including Go, C++, Java, and C. He has driven production-grade work at companies from New Relic and Meta to CrowdStrike and LaunchDarkly, focusing on data modeling, consistency guarantees, sharding-as-a-service, and low-latency data delivery. Dakota combines deep systems-level programming (early work in C for legacy HR/Finance systems and protocol augmentation) with modern cloud-scale tooling for Kafka, Cassandra, and graph storage/query systems. Pragmatic about availability and reliability, he repeatedly ships scalable, observable platforms that support heavy data flows and operational scaling. Continuously curious, he blends performance-minded engineering with practical API and integration design honed across enterprise and security-focused environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Clark CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityHigh School, High School at Mountain View High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
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graphview9
candlestick-chart9
java9
graph9
android9
ros9
drones8
gdb8
linux8
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autopilot7
mavlink7
px47
launchdarkly6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dakotasanchez/farmers-market-finder
Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:233 commits, 127 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
dakotasanchez/geo-opposite
Jul 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:71 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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