Dan Vanwinkle
Software Engineer, IOS at Meta
Lebanon, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolDan Vanwinkle is a seasoned software engineer specializing in iOS with 11 years of experience building native mobile apps, leading teams, and driving product technical strategy. He has progressed from founding and shipping startups to leading engineering teams and now contributes to iOS at Meta, bringing a blend of hands-on development and people leadership. Dan has deep full-stack experience—mobile, web, backend and cloud—and has led migrations from hosted Parse to self-hosted solutions, plus Dockerized deployments and multi-tenant architectures. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved authentication, bcrypt support, and push-targeting in the widely used parse-dashboard project, illustrating his focus on secure, testable backend systems that support mobile ecosystems. Based in Lebanon, Ohio, he pairs enterprise delivery experience with startup grit and a knack for translating operational needs into robust engineering solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BBA, Information Systems, BBA, Information Systems at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (14)
authentication10
user-authentication10
javascript10
dashboard10
nodejs9
ios6
entity-framework6
iphone6
linq-to-sql6
sum6
react5
graphql4
wpgraphql4
wordpress-graphql4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
parse-community/parse-dashboard
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
A dashboard for managing Parse Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 42 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Parse Dashboard, focusing on authentication and authorization features. They implemented the ability to accept encrypted passwords, incorporating bcrypt for secure password handling. Furthermore, the user refactored authentication into a dedicated module and added unit tests. They also made improvements to the push notification audience conditions within the dashboard.
parse-serverdashboardparse-platformgraphql
krushtech/style-guide
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
style-guidescss
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