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Dan Strohschein

Senior Engineering Leader & Expert Developer

Building & growing teams is my passion, technology is my language

About Me

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Developing software since 1998. Building teams since 2015.

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Dan Strohschein

Software Engineering Director

Hi! I'm a senior level leader and expert engineer based in Georgia, USA. I'm focused on building talented teams of software engineers and leading them to success. I lead with empathy to empower my teams.

I'm also an experienced principal software engineer developing SaaS products in various platforms and industries.

Whether it's building a new SaaS app or building a new team of talented engineers, I love what I do!

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7

Years in Leadership

20

Years as Engineer

3

Direct report Managers

25

Engineers on my Team

My Areas of Expertise

Where my strengths lie

Leadership

Service based leadership, with a focus on ownership and team empowerment

Engineering

Twenty years of experience as an enterprise level software architect in a wide set of technologies.

Agile Team Building

Embraced agile practices and became an evangelist for many agile methodologies, but focused on SCRUM.

Process Improvement

Focused on continuous improvement and growth for myself, my team, my product and the company.

Why did I become a Software Engineer?

I have been in love with computers since I was 9 years old, working on my parents Commodore64 computer. The logic and creativity attracted me, and I haven't stopped since. I love all things technology.

Product Portfolio

Products & Projects I've built

Ascent Evolved

An employee growth and coaching platform and framework

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JTL

A JSON Query & Transformation framework/Library in GoLang/Rust/C#

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What do I love about technology leadership?

I love being able to make an impact on an individual's career by mentoring them and providing opportunities for them to succeed. There is no better feeling than of helping someone grow.

Skills & Expertise

Some of my strongest skills

100%
Leadership
100%
Communication
90%
Agile Methodologies
90%
Product Development
100%
.NET/C#
70%
Angular / Vue / React
70%
AWS / Azure
90%
SQL / NoSQL
80%
DevOps / CICD
40%
GoLang / RUST

Work Experience

Where I learned my trade.

  1. 2022 - Present

    Koneksa Health

    Engineering Manager

    • Built and lead a team of 10 remote software engineers and team leads (onshore and offshore) on Koneksa’s data streaming, Clinical Portal SaaS Product offering.
    • Restructured teams to increase focus and communication, resulting in better time efficiency. Introduced KPI reporting with OKRs, bringing teams inline with business goals and progress. Implemented agile processes, overall SDLC, CICD processes, test automation, resulting in small, frequent (from monthly to daily) deployments. Established team building events resulting in new tools that reduced study setup time by 60%. Introduced new PR/code reviews, design reviews, and architectural standards, resulting in significantly less quality churn.
    • Core contributor to SaaS product development roadmap. Worked with cross functional teams to establish priorities and align schedules resulting in significantly higher quality releases

  2. 2021 to 2022

    Zywave

    Director of Engineering

    • Built and lead team of 20 remote software engineers and 3 Managers on Zywave’s Personal Lines CPQ SaaS product suite.
    • Lead Agile methodology adoption for the team.
    • Created team mission, KPI’s and OKRs to guide and measure product success.
    • Initiated new successful hiring/interview process and set standards for team roles.
    • Designed fully automated DevOps processes for cloud based infrastructure (AWS).
    • Lead strategic direction for product growth and evolution to meet market demands
    • Lead feedback cycles with executive leadership and engineering
    • Created new practices for balancing product support while advancing new features
    • Mentored/coached managers and engineers on career and skill paths
    • Created place growth plans for whole team
    • Started recurring team building events to foster strong remote relationships
    • Lead technical and architectural standards in .NET/C#
    • Lead frontend and UX standards design in Angular and Web Components in Javascript
    • Drove product direction and enterprise design discussions
    • Lead adoption, implementation, and design of AWS Cloud native development practices

  3. 2017 to 2021

    Presidio

    Software Eng. Manager

    • Built and lead multiple teams of Remote software engineers for our Public cloud development consulting service and Scorpion Security SaaS Product.
    • Created product development roadmaps, implemented KPI/OKR frameworks resulting in stronger business buy in and better engineering efficiency. Implemented coaching program for engineers which established a department-wide growth framework.
    • Updated DevOps patterns, CICD with Gitlab, and best practices for AWS to establish best practices and design standards in cloud development. Created Code Review and Design Meeting practices. Implemented Automation for testing and deployment to AWS, resulting in increased release frequency and increased code quality
    • Drove architectural designs in .NET/C#
    • Lead database designs in SQL, Mongo, and BoltDB
    • Created new process for estimating on-prem to cloud app migrations.
    • Implemented processes & tooling for engineer skill growth
    • Oversaw projects in managerial, architectural, and product owner roles
    • Mentored/Coached developers to build paths for career and skill growth
    • Established new estimation processes, time reporting processes, and introduced agile methodologies (SCRUM)
    • Developed modernization Framework to help migrate on-prem apps to AWS

  4. 2011 to 2017

    NASA - Kennedy Space Center

    Principal Engineer / Team Lead

    • Lead design, implementation, and validation of 20 enterprise level web apps in a SCRUM environment.
    • Lead adoption of frontend development in Javascript through SPA frameworks such as Angular & Vue
    • Developed enterprise level microservices in C# and NodeJS
    • Developed database designs in MS Sql, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, and RavenDB
    • Designed and developed Android Java apps for specialized AR hardware
    • Mentored developers to help them gain new skills and promotions
    • Contributed significantly to the evangelism of Agile Methodologies
    • Lead architectural standards and design committees for evaluating new technologies
    • Designed and developed VS extensions for code generation based on DB designs
    • Lead design and adoption of modern CICD Devops practices to automate builds and releases

  5. 2009 to 2014

    By The Fans, LLC

    Head of Engineering

    • Designed and developed microservice based Web application for sports polling, betting, and streaming for over 3 million active users.
    • Hired and mentoredteam of 3 Software Engineers to facilitate software growth. Developed standards and practices including CICD and Devops aligning the team to business goals. Implemented Agile framework for more efficient SDLC.
    • Drove the overall engineering strategy, technical direction, and product development vision.
    • Developed Mentorship framework for software engineers to guide career growth.

  6. 2008 to 2010

    Adventist Health Systems

    Program Manager / Team Lead

    • Developed and lead 27 public facing websites on the DNN platform.
    • Drove adoption of javascript/jQuery for frontend development
    • Lead contributor to the .NET/C# code base for all modules
    • Lead strategy council to set technology goals and marketing efforts.
    • Lead initiative to implement an Enterprise-wide search solution
    • Introduced Agile Methodologies to the development team

  7. 2005 to 2008

    Mitsubishi Power Systems

    Senior Software Developer

    • Designed and implemented a CAD Drawing program for part inspection in C# as a windows app
    • Developed a data collection app to retrieve 100x more sensors from turbines in C++
    • Developed custom CMS for company newsletter delivery

  8. 1998 to 2005

    Various

    Software Developer

    • Designed, built, and deployed windows applications across multiple industries in C#, VB, C++
    • Designed, built, and deployed web sites and web applications in classic ASPv3 & Javascript
    • Responsible for database design, business layer design, and UI design
    • Migrated customers from fat client applications to web based applications.

Education

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

A.A, CIS

Eastern Florida State College

B.A, MIS

Jones College

Certified Scrum Developer

Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

What do I love about technology?

Tech always changes, evolves, and grows. It's a field that one could never truly master, so there is always a new challenge. It never gets boring.

Get in touch

Feel free to contact me if you have questions or interest in talking to me

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