Dan Whaley
CEO, Co-Founder at BTP Automation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Whaley is a serial founder and technology entrepreneur who launched the online travel industry in 1994 with GetThere, scaling it from living-room code to a public SaaS company and eventual $770M sale to Sabre. Based in San Francisco, he has since founded, advised, or funded multiple companies across travel, climate science, software testing, and social annotation—most recently leading AI-focused ventures like BTP Automation and AmForge. He combines product-level engineering experience (early code, CTO duties) with C-suite strategy and board-level governance, repeatedly turning bold technical ideas into commercially durable platforms. Dan has a knack for pairing deep domain partnerships with unconventional approaches—cofounded a carbon removal startup with his oceanographer mother and helped establish the W3C Web Annotation standard through Hypothesis. He is energized by hard technical challenges and building teams that scale impact, and keeps returning to spaces where technology can reshape large markets.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Photography, BA, English, Photography at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, Tibetan
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Github Skills (57)
python10
annotate10
url-fragment9
browser-extension9
webarchive9
firefox9
chrome9
frontend9
python-web8
javascript8
web-proxy8
learning-management-system7
ecosystem7
minecraft7
intellij-idea7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hypothesis/vision
Feb 2014 - Oct 2014
Envisioning the future of the Hypothesis.
Contributions:15 commits, 34 comments, 15 issues in 7 months
placevisioncomputer-visionecosystemdiscuss
dwhly/hermes-host-bootstrap
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:30 pushes in 1 month
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