Dan Applegate
Lead Software Engineer at Nivelo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDan Applegate is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 14+ years crafting full-stack and infrastructure solutions across startups and scale-ups. He brings leadership experience from roles as a Software Engineering Manager at Transfix and Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Skillshare, and currently contributes to core engineering at Square. Dan has a track record of moving systems from prototype to production—optimizing backend services and infrastructure for reliability and scale—while mentoring teams and bridging product needs with engineering realities. A Wake Forest magna cum laude computer science graduate, he pairs deep hands-on implementation skills with a pragmatic, systems-oriented view that helps teams ship robust, maintainable software.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Wake Forest University
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Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danapplegate/leaky-bucket-php
Mar 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
golangrustpurposeleakyleaky-bucket-algorithm
danapplegate/danapplegate.github.com
Jun 2019 - Apr 2026
Contributions:10 pushes in 6 years 11 months
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