D a n M u r r a y

OBJECTIVE

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ontribute my strengths full-time to a team of engineers to develop well-structured software to solve real problems facing humans.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS Computer Engineering, Spring 2015

SA National Taiwan University, Fall 2013

GPA - 3.54/4.0

Getting Things Done® (GTD)

Javascript

CSS

Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture

Python

Asynchronous Programming

國語 (Mandarin Chinese)

Git

Linux

UX Design

Portuñol (Portuguese-Spanish Pidgin)

Golang

Deutch (German)

Brazilian Jiu Jistu

First engineering hire at a bootstrapped customer feedback startup that has grown from $300k to $3M ARR during my employment.
Developed an unconventional hiring pipeline that allowed our small team to evaluate the technical skills of thousands of candidates in minutes rather than hours and grow from 1 to 8 highly-productive engineers.
Built the product's analytics platform that allows customers to aggregate millions of feedback and customer data points in fractions of a second. MongoDB, NodeJS, React
Automated the manual process of qualifying sales leads with 90% accuracy using a linear regression data model. Python, scikit-learn
Spearheaded the development of program that allowed our $50 customers to try our $200 plan which converted 75% of participants.

Led introduction and adoption of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in the service engineering organization.
Managed the release of a new UI affecting thousands of daily active users, reaching 80% user acceptance within 1 week of rollout.
Rearchitected monolithic API to a Domain Driven Design that could be configured at deployment time. This allowed us to ship a paired down instance of our application to external bodyshops increasing service capacity 400+%.
Led initiative to prioritize the team's workload, resulting in improved estimate accuracy, team effectiveness, responsiveness and executive approval to double team headcount.

Owned diagnostic integration during Model 3 manufacturing ramp; responsible for identifying issues, diagnosing root causes, and delegating work across teams.
Designed a wireless on-board diagnostic system enabling testing earlier in the manufacturing process, streamlining production, decreasing repair costs and increasing yield. UDS, Python3, Unix Sockets, Golang, Rabbitmq
Developed a visual editor that enabled 100+ engineers to define more than 500+ custom logic flows to automate service diagnostics and manufacturing line operations. Webpack, React, Redux, Websockets, Python3
Implemented a multi-level escalation system to offload 90% (10x decrease) of service diagnostic cases handled by the service engineering team.
Introduced React, Redux, Webpack, Linting, TDD, CI/CD, static analysis, and functional/asynchronous programming practices to development.

Built an e-commerce website that allowed our 7,000+ Kickstarter backers update their shipping info and aggregated data to streamline manufacturing and processing of 8,000+ deliveries to over 70 countries .

Led a team of 6 students for UIUC and 5 students from our partner school, Peking University, in developing a home automation system for the UIUC/PKU entry into China's first Solar Decathlon. Backone, Websockets, Python
Traveled to China in the summer of 2013 to oversee the final stages of construction and installation. Provided tours in Mandarin in the competition city of Datong.