Daniel Covelli

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building web and mobile applications. Experienced in TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, and Node.js. Passionate about creating user-friendly interfaces and scalable backend systems.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Groundswell.io

Jun 2021 — Current

Promoted twice from SWE Intern to Software Engineer (September 2021) and from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer (September 2023)
First engineering hire. Helped grow user base from 0 to ~5k users. Helped grow ARR from $0 to $300k
Lead developer on Mobile app, Web app, and Social Web Product
Worked across platforms helping build features and deploying software to end users, frameworks include React Native, React, Next.js, Express, GraphQL, Prisma, and PostgreSQL
Worked on mobile and web frontend unit and integration tests using React Testing Library, Jest, and Detox
Worked on backend unit and integration tests using Chai, Sinon, and Mocha
Helped configure and define eslint rules for mobile and web to ensure consistent and readable code
Helped review PRs across mobile, backend, and web
Helped monitor and isolate production issues using DataDog
Worked closely with CTO, CEO, and R&D leadership to identify and address process and product optimizations
Helped create first company microservices leveraging GraphQL, HTTP, gRPC, Golang and PostgreSQL
Created UML sequence diagrams describing data and call flows between server, client, and third-party fintech APIs

Software Engineering Intern

Mushroom.gg

Jan 2021 — Mar 2021

Helped early stage social media start-up build out product features and grow daily active user base
Leveraged React to develop responsive front-end components, implemented GraphQL queries and mutations with Apollo caching, updated AWS hosted PostgreSQL database schema via data migrations
Collaborated closely with product, engineering, and design teams to iterate on system design and product features

Web Development Intern

Stealth

Mar 2020 — Aug 2020

Designed reference-based data models and set up REST API using Axios, Express, and MongoDB
Outsourced image storage to Cloudinary API; used bcrypt to hash passwords and JWT to generate login tokens for users
Collaborated with TPM and PM to design database architecture, plan development strategy, and advise founders

Course Staff Intern

Berkeley EECS Department (CS88)

Jan 2020 — Mar 2020

Helped freshman Data Science students learn Python fundamentals including abstraction, data structures, algorithmic thinking, and object oriented programming; other topics included SQL and machine learning

Web Automation Intern

Stealth

Jan 2019 — Aug 2019

Used Selenium with Python to screen 2,000+ clients, investors, and engineers for business development efforts; designed an algorithm to parse subject LinkedIn and Crunchbase profile pages

UI/UX Design Consultant

Blockchain at Berkeley

Aug 2018 — May 2019

Designed several 50+ page UI/UX projects for consulting department
Helped lead design overhaul for clubs website and volunteered to interview candidates for Spring 2019 recruitment