Dan Hackner Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Leadership and IC contribution highlights from my time at Uber:*Product Engineering*- Led cross-functional design and development of systems powering the Rider homescreen to unlock global ML-powered personalized experiences across the highest traffic screen in Uber- Consolidated multiple messaging and ads stacks and roadmaps across the company. Built POCs unlocking Uber’s 3p advertising opportunity- Founded Rider Personalization group and implemented novel exploration methods to balance existing products against the monthly launch of hundreds of products globally- Architected Uber Pro, the world’s first gig worker loyalty program for the largest workforce on Earth, earning $100s of millions in annual Gross Bookings- Identified reuse opportunities to power multiple other loyalty-like programs at Uber, led 80+ engineers across multiple organizations in platformization of the world’s largest loyalty system by volume, eliminating hundreds of engineering months of redundancies- Developed systems powering the Driver app’s education and tooltip content- Launched new APACx markets and ran experiments to improve their growth conversion*Company-wide initiatives*- Co-founded a review committee for all multi-year company wide engineering migrations and adoptions, serving as principal reviewer for multiple proposals and reducing distributed asks of dozens of engineering years of work- Developed company-wide backend testing strategy. Implemented coverage tooling and best practices/adoption strategies for hermetic testing frameworks- Conducted M&A due diligence of potential acquisition targets- Designed and taught product engineering curriculum to local high school- Mentored engineers internally as well as externally through the #BUILTBYGIRLS partnership- Designed a committee structure for reviewing hundreds of engineering plans and designs across horizontal organizations- Won global internal Hackathon!

San Francisco, California, Us

Backend IC lead for 200+ engineer organization

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Advise startups on software architecture design- Guide founders in LEAN development techniques and technology selection- Design and oversee development of MVPs- Manage remote engineering teams- Assist in hiring and technical team building- Work in a multi-continent distributed team- Speaker:— Vietnam National University innovation hub— UP@ incubator

Major projects:- Built encrypted secure peer-to-peer device based social network (neobase.com) that operates without cloud- Oversaw architectural design to make system inherently immune to data-mining and mass surveillance of personal information- Designed custom TCP security protocols- Coded full-stack; primarily in Python/Django and AngularJS- Helped build custom linux distribution- Grew team from a single member- Product management and feature planning- Worked with cofounders of Headnote to scope and build MVP back-of-house legal product and recruit teamSide projects:- Developed (confidential) internal tools for company to streamline marketing and finance processes by interviewing, working with, and training stakeholders- Built travel search products

Chengdu, Sichuan, Cn

Developed, wrote, and taught credit courses on Agile/LEAN project development and Python/Django web development.

- Designed and implemented the core routing engine for flight search- Built support for highly open ended natural language queries, e.g. "SFO to Anywhere next week"- Implemented and maintained data mining toolset- Pitched VCs- Worked remotely and in person in a multi-continent distributed team

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Built tool suite for external API clients to rapidly generate and serialize mock data- Led post-acquisition integration strategy for testing infrastructure and systems- Created internal tools and testing infrastructure for all products, mobile, and web- Automated steps of the engineering workflow and streamlined the development process- Created data loading tools for fixture generation- Designed and wrote Selenium/Webdriver based distributed testing framework using Page Object/Factory patterns- Enabled data creation in simpler, more intuitive ways by building custom data ripping tools and randomizers- Built continuous integration system for all TripIt products (mobile, web, email-parsing)

Arlington, Va, Us

- Designed and implemented distributed Selenium testing framework in Java used for regression and load testing- Built coverage analysis tools to plan testing for future features and examine gaps in pairwise coverage- Implemented reporting tools to enable quick bug reproduction and resolution- Developed testing plans for new features and directed their execution as testing lead

- Wrote test suite generator to parse and convert GUITAR output into jfcUnit tests, enabling GUITAR to generate open format test cases for Java GUI applications- Published paper with Professor Atif Memon- Exhibited the Open Source project at ICSE informal research demonstration session and during main conference in Leipzig, Germany

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Wrote extensible data analysis software enabling visualization of worldwide usage of tools as a 3-D Google Earth overlay- Self-taught Python and achieved "Readability" status for consistently adhering to language standards and style- Created an automated testing framework and a diff tool for Google Maps’ back-end query parsing engine- Trained other engineers in how to use the framework to test experimental query parsing techniques

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Executive Education, Leadership & Strategy