About Me
Hi. I’m Dan. Thanks for checking out my little spot on the Internet.
I’m a co-founder and the CTO of Champify. We’re building the next generation of tech for high-powered sales teams. Our first product, Champify Track, helps enterprise B2B software sales teams sell smarter by connecting them with people who actually want to buy their products.
Formerly, I was a Senior Software Engineer at Heap, a digital analytics product. Before that, I ran a boutique software studio in Austin, TX for about a decade. I specialized in helping startups and small teams turn ideas into working products. During this time, I was acting CTO of several successful products and companies.
Here are a few things I’ve helped build:
- The Black Tux: the new way to rent a tuxedo
- Coffee Meets Bagel: online dating with a twist
- TripleMint (acquired by The Agency): digital real estate brokerage
- BananaDesk: modern hostel management
- Stacklist: the best business tools for growing your startup
You might also know me from Breakup Notifier, a site I wrote that went viral a few years ago (it was acquired and unfortunately, is no longer running).
About This Blog
This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. The directory structure and files are generated by Hugo, a static-site generator.
The site uses the latest semantic markup as recommended by the W3C and is built with a 56k modem philosophy. For instance, you might notice that no images are automatically loaded in posts; if you’d like to view an image, just click “Load Image”. I’m working on a site-wide toggle to turn this on or off If you’d like to autoload all images, just click the corresponding option in the footer.
Stylesheets are generated by Compass, a Sass framework, which are then compiled to CSS, minified, compressed, and cache-busted. A similar process is performed with JavaScript. All HTML pages are written in Markdown, converted to HTML, minified, and then deployed.
If you want to reach me, just send over an email.
Thanks for reading. :)
- Dan