Dane Guempel

Austin TX ยท daneguempel@gmail.com

I am a senior engineering leader with experience creating high performing, open, and inclusive teams that deliver quality software.


Experience

Software Engineer

Shamrock Trading Corporation

  • Developed integrations which allow third parties to integrate with the Ryan Transportation order management system
  • Maintained and improved the company load board where a network of more than 90,000 carriers book loads to ship freight across the country
  • Helped develop a mobile application in react native for carriers to manage the process of shipping freight
  • Technologies: Typescript, JavaScript, React.js, AWS, AWS Lambda

January 2022 - Present

Engineering Director

Babylon Health

  • Defined the technical and business strategy of our clinical and admin portals to allow our clinicians to deliver world class healthcare
  • Managed and coached engineering managers overseeing globally distributed teams spanning multiple timezones and disparate health systems
  • Contributed to the establishment of our population health technology for managing patient care in risk based contracts
  • Technologies: Typescript, JavaScript, Java (Spring), React.js, AWS

January 2020 - December 2021

Senior Engineering Manager

Blue Apron

  • Delivered more products/features in 2020 than the cumulative history of Blue Apron
  • Managed globally distributed teams across multiple time zones
  • Successfully interviewed, trained, and hired new team members to grow the team by 50%
  • Created technical vision, strategy and estimations in alignment with the business objectives
  • Technologies: Ruby On Rails, JavaScript, React.js, AWS

January 2020 - December 2021

Senior Engineering Manager

Cerner Corporation - Population Health

  • Mentored newly promoted engineering managers
  • Managed teams of associates as well as 3rd party contractors
  • Designed and help develop internal tooling used to minimize the time between a client signing a contract and adoption
  • Worked with leadership to define a strategy for achieving resiliency between Cerner Region Zones for the teams products
  • Technologies: Ruby On Rails, JavaScript, Docker, React.js, AWS, MySQL, JSON, HTTP

October 2018 - January 2020

Engineering Manager

Cerner Corporation - Population Health

  • Contributed to the creation of a new organization within Cerner to go after the Population Health market by forming and leading one of the first teams
  • Mentored multiple members of my team to transition from individual contributor roles to leading teams of their own
  • Increased the productivity of the team by standardizing the product portfolio in order to minimize friction when context switching between projects
  • Technologies: Ruby On Rails, JavaScript, Chef, Docker, React.js, AWS, MySQL, JSON, HTTP

January 2013 - October 2018

Senior Software Engineer

Cerner Corporation - Consumer Health

  • Worked on creating a Personal Health Record (PHR) for viewing health data and controlling third party access to your data
  • Performed a technical assessment to choose between RabbitMQ and Redis as the broker for our invitation product. Contributed bug reports and the fix to issues found with using failover and ack emulation with Redis as the broker
  • Technologies: Python, Django, RabbitMQ, Celery, Postgres, Redis, Fabric, CSS, HTML

September 2012 - January 2013

Software Engineer

Cerner Corporation

  • Helped develop a web application to assist pharmaceutical companies manage clinical trials for drugs
  • Suggested and implemented improvements to our test suite to use a mocking library (Mockito) to create more isolated and less fragile tests
  • Technologies: Java, Spring, Hibernate, HTML, CSS

January 2009 - September 2012

Intern - Software Engineer

Boeing - NASA

  • Wrote code to test the Solar Array Rotary Joint (SARJ) on the International Space Station intended to maximize energy creation during orbital rotation
  • Technologies: C#, .NET, HTML, CSS

June 2008 - September 2008

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Bachelor of Science
Finance, Computer Science

GPA: 3.9

August 2004 - December 2008

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Awards

  • Received an Outstanding (top 15%) or Distinguished (top 5%) performance review rating for each year between 2013-2018
  • Selected for Cerner's Accelerate leadership development class
  • Cerner Masters - Flawless Execution award winner for releasing features quickly and with few defects

Interests

  • Traveling anywhere in the world with a beach!
  • Playing and watching soccer, especially FC Barcelona
  • Skiing