Danny Coates

Founder, Bitcataz LLC, 2022 to Present

I design, implement, and support full stack web applications from concept to daily operations.

Staff Software Engineer, Mozilla, 2013 to 2022

Mozilla was a dream job. I was fortunate to work on many projects and had several roles on multiple teams over the years. On the Identity team I helped expand Persona and later designed and implemented the Firefox Accounts authentication service, serving millions of active users. I later joined the Test Pilot team leading or collaborating on a variety of experimental projects. I also managed and mentored groups of interns on projects like Firefox Send. The best part was collaborating with so many smart and kind people across the organization. I left to pursue another dream of running my own business.

Senior Developer, Voxer, 2011 to 2013

I scaled the audio backend service from 30k users to over 30M users. We implemented a unique, patented, method of delivering both live streamed and recorded audio seamlessly and simultaneously. We experienced exponential growth and had to refactor and optimize our Node.js applications quickly to meet demand. During this time I found and helped fix several critical bugs in Node.js core.

Senior Developer, Healthcare Insight (now Cotiviti), 2009 to 2011

I redesigned an existing PLSQL application in C#, architected its infrastructure to improve scalability and maintainability, and led the development and integration. The project was completed on time and provided an overall 10x performance improvement over the PLSQL system. Subsequent releases improved performance further. I also implemented a testing framework based on Cucumber and Ruby that has increased developer and SME collaboration and productivity immensely.

Independent Software Developer, 2008 to 2009

I wrote a custom CD burner application for Power Music Inc. that burns mp3 music gaplessly to CD. The Mac version is written in Objective-C with Cocoa, and the Windows version is C++ and MFC. The burners preprocess the mp3 files to produce gapless audio files, and then burn the audio to disc. I designed the user interfaces to be simple. The programs could be run without any installation and file sizes were kept as small as possible for fast downloading, under 1MB.

Senior Developer, Podfitness.com, 2005 to 2008

As a member of the initial development team I designed, developed, and deployed a multi-platform software client used by over 150,000 customers within 2 years to create dynamic workout programs mixed with their personal music. I collaborated with SMEs to design and implement a data model for the business. I formed and led a team that created a training assistant application for mobile phones, before the iPhone, in which the user can interact with their training program in real-time. That project resulted in the establishment of a subsidiary company. Our team integrated server systems with client software in a unique way that unified the user experience. We used an agile approach to development that quickly produced working, useful products. I was considered the expert of the core business technology.

Student / Junior Developer, 2003 to 2005

While studying the fundamentals of computer science at the University of Utah I did contract software development to hone my real world skills.

Intelligence Analyst, USMC, 1999 to 2003

I received two medals while serving in the Marines related to IT:

• Navy Achievement Medal - Designed, deployed, and maintained an organizational website during Operation Iraqi Freedom that served up to 20,000 documents from multiple data feeds of time critical information to a multi-service intelligence community of over 2,000 users with no downtime using ASP.NET 1.0, MSSQL Server, and SharePoint.
• Navy Achievement Medal - Awarded for developing and deploying the first web-enabled database application for maintaining and tracking the records and availability of multilingual Marines within an organization of over 30,000 individuals written in classic ASP with VBScript and MSSQL Server.