Daniel Drabik
CTO at Crossword Countdown, Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Drabik is a product-driven technology leader and CTO with 12 years of engineering and management experience building high-impact, user-facing systems for social good and commerce. He led Kickstarter’s international payments, onboarding, and identity systems that processed over $1B in pledges and has since steered Quill.org’s engineering and ML-backed product roadmap to improve literacy for lower-income middle schoolers. Equally comfortable shipping code and setting technical strategy, he’s founded a revenue-positive iOS game (Crossword Countdown) and has hands-on experience across Swift, Ruby/Rails, Python, Kotlin, and large analytical datastores like Vertica and Redshift. A Harvard MPA graduate, he blends policy insight with engineering rigor—making him adept at navigating regulatory, product, and technical tradeoffs in mission-driven technology.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Administration - MPA, Master of Public Administration - MPA at Harvard Kennedy SchoolBachelors Degree, Mathematics Major, Computer Science Minor, Concentration in Honors, Bachelors Degree, Mathematics Major, Computer Science Minor, Concentration in Honors at Villanova University
Github Skills (16)
monorepo10
js10
rails10
edtech10
learning-management-system10
react10
ruby10
algorithms5
leader5
api4
nodejs4
natural-language-processing4
amazon4
typescript3
aws3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dandrabik/crossword_website
Sep 2018 - Sep 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
empirical-org/AI-Writing-Check
Jan 2023 - Jun 2025
For the open source AIWritingCheck.org tool - check if a piece of writing was generated by AI
Contributions:8 PRs, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
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