A highly regarded technologist, Dan Pritchett brings more than 25 years of engineering experience to the company after working with some of the most well-known technology companies of our day. In his role as Chief Platform Architect, Dan is tasked with finding solutions to the unique set of challenges that go with scaling the platform to accommodate rapid growth.
Previously Dan was a lead architect engineer at eBay where he was responsible for integrating the catalogs functionality, rearchitecting the billing system and structuring the architecture for integration across all of eBay’s 19 companies. Due to significant accomplishments he achieved, he was he designated to become one of the seven Technical Fellows at eBay.
Prior to his tenure at eBay, Dan consulted on foundational Internet infrastructure for many well-known companies such as Chase, Sun, HP, Electronic Arts, and the Federal Home Loan Bank.
Early in his career he was a software engineer at Sun Microsystems; working on the desktop email application, and before this, Dan developed for ESL, where he had a heavy emphasis on geographical data modeling.
Dan is frequently asked to speak at technical events. In the past he spoke at InfoQ (2x), Colorado Software Summit (2x), Dr. Dobbs Software Conference, and local Java SIG’s.
Dan has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Missouri, Rolla.
