About

Dan Metzler is a Senior Software Engineer at NerdWallet with over 8 years of experience in the industry. He is an avid freediver and surfer who occasionally dabbles in software. Dan loves to build and has a knack for decomposing complex projects into bite-sized pieces which are easy to design, develop, validate, and iterate upon. He has owned the architecture, development, and maintenance of numerous large projects responsible for tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue. Impact is what gets Dan going, specifically seeing how his work affects users and alters the business's trajectory. On the technical side, Dan has extensive experience diagnosing and resolving complex problems across all layers of enterprise-scale cloud software stacks. He has professional experience with Java, Python, NodeJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, SQL, GCP, and AWS. Dan also has personal experience with React Native, Ruby, C, C++, and PHP. Dan is also an avid surfer and freediver with a love for cooking and a newly-enabled obsession with coffee. In his previous role at Flock Freight, he led a team of 4 engineers responsible for introducing per-lane contracted rates to the Flock platform. He owned the experiment-driven design and development of an automated bidding system enabling scalable revenue growth without corresponding headcount increases. Dan designed and implemented a second-price sealed bid auction mechanism for load fulfillment, which won both the Managers' Choice and Developers' Choice awards at the first Flock Hackathon. Dan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of California, San Diego, and a minor in Computer Science. He is a software engineer with experience in SQL, AWS, PHP, GCP, and integration. Dan has a strong track record of quickly delivering high-impact projects while balancing product needs with technical constraints.