Dan Zumwalt
Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Zumwalt is a Principal Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading teams at large tech companies, currently shaping platform and product work at LinkedIn after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, repeatedly stepping up from individual contributor roles to senior staff and principal levels across complex, scale-oriented projects. Based in Snoqualmie, Washington, he brings a systems-focused background from a B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology and a track record of shipping reliable software across cloud and enterprise environments. Known for translating ambiguous requirements into pragmatic architectures, he prioritizes mentorship and cross-team collaboration to accelerate delivery. A practical problem-solver, Dan often operates at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and developer productivity rather than just code-for-code’s-sake engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electronics Engineering Technology Computer Systems, B.S. Electronics Engineering Technology Computer Systems at Western Washington University
Github Skills (63)
bower9
npm9
javascript9
yarnpkg9
oauth9
ui-testing9
driver9
test-automation8
microsoft-graph8
npm-package8
appium8
webdriver7
ios7
windows-application7
windows7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zumwald/better-vsts-npm-auth
Oct 2017 - Mar 2021
Platform agnostic library and acompanying oauth service enabling developers to easily obtain and use tokens for authorizing NPM feeds in VSTS
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 28 PRs in 3 years 5 months
npmoauth
zumwald/oss-attribution-generator
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
utility to parse bower and npm packages used in a project and generate an attribution file to include in your product
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 5 commits in 1 year 1 month
bowernpm-package
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