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Dana Levine

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Founder at Instantq

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedInstantq · YC

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Dana: together at MIT Sloan School of Management
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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.

Founder at InstantqYC S09

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YC

Dana went through Y Combinator (Summer 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2009

Co-founders at Instantq

JX
Jeffery Xin ShiFounder

Experience

  1. Canary TechnologiesLead Software Engineercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Jane Technologies, Inc.Lead Product Manager & Engineering Manager2022 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
  3. Your Product CoachFractional CTO / CPO, Software Engineering and Product Management2021 — 2022San Francisco, California, United States
  4. AmplitudeProduct Manager2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  5. AmplitudeStaff Engineer, Full Stack2017 — 2018San Francisco, CA
  6. Wrap MediaDirector of Engineering2014 — 2016San Francisco
  7. Self EmployedEngineering and Product Consultant2013 — 2015San Francisco
  8. 42FloorsCo-Founder and Director of Engineering2012 — 2013San Francisco
  9. ScaffoldCo-Founder and CTO2011 — 2012New York, New York
  10. MotorolaPrincipal Engineer2010 — 2011Burlingame, CA
  11. ZecterPrincipal Engineer2010Burlingame, CA
  12. InstantQCo-Founder and President2008 — 2010Sunnyvale, CA
  13. GoogleSoftware Engineer2004 — 2007Mountain View, CA
  14. Appian CorporationSenior Consultant2002 — 2004Vienna, VA

Skills & more

Engineering ManagementReact.jsPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningSoftware Development20Start-ups21Product Management18Ruby on Rails14Entrepreneurship12Engineering12Mobile Applications10Ruby7
+12 moreScalabilityPythonJavaScriptJavaDistributed 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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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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Also worked at Jane Technologies, Inc.1

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