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About
Dana Levine is a Lead Software Engineer at Canary Technologies with experience in full-stack engineering and product development across B2B and SaaS platforms. Levine has founded two startups backed by Y Combinator and 500 Startups, and has led projects including SDK development, a Chrome extension with over 10,000 downloads, and product personalization features. Technical skills include JavaScript/TypeScript, ReactJS, Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL, and AWS.
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Dana went through Y Combinator (Summer 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Experience
- Canary TechnologiesLead Software Engineercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Jane Technologies, Inc.Lead Product Manager & Engineering Manager2022 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
- Your Product CoachFractional CTO / CPO, Software Engineering and Product Management2021 — 2022San Francisco, California, United States
- AmplitudeProduct Manager2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- AmplitudeStaff Engineer, Full Stack2017 — 2018San Francisco, CA
- Wrap MediaDirector of Engineering2014 — 2016San Francisco
- Self EmployedEngineering and Product Consultant2013 — 2015San Francisco
- 42FloorsCo-Founder and Director of Engineering2012 — 2013San Francisco
- ScaffoldCo-Founder and CTO2011 — 2012New York, New York
- MotorolaPrincipal Engineer2010 — 2011Burlingame, CA
- ZecterPrincipal Engineer2010Burlingame, CA
- InstantQCo-Founder and President2008 — 2010Sunnyvale, CA
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2004 — 2007Mountain View, CA
- Appian CorporationSenior Consultant2002 — 2004Vienna, VA
Skills & more
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ScalabilityPythonJavaScriptJavaDistributed SystemsCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSoftware EngineeringGitSaaSAgile MethodologiesBusiness Development- Reinforcement Learning Specialization — Coursera
- A Complete Reinforcement Learning System (Capstone) — Coursera
- Prediction and Control with Function Approximation — Coursera
- Sample-based Learning Methods — Coursera
- Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning — Coursera
- Mathematics for Machine Learning: PCA — Coursera
- Mathematics for Machine Learning: Multivariate Calculus — Coursera
- Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra — Coursera
- Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization — Coursera
- Deep Learning Specialization — Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Dana Levine?
- Dana Levine is a Lead Software Engineer at Canary Technologies with experience in full-stack engineering and product development across B2B and SaaS platforms. Levine has founded two startups backed by Y Combinator and 500 Startups, and has led projects including SDK development, a Chrome extension with over 10,000 downloads, and product personalization features. Technical skills include JavaScript/TypeScript, ReactJS, Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL, and AWS.
- Where does Dana Levine work?
- Dana Levine is Founder of Instantq.
- What companies did Dana Levine found?
- Dana Levine founded Instantq.
- Where did Dana Levine go to school?
- Dana Levine studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S., Bioengineering); MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SB, Cognitive Science).
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