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Danny Wallace

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Founder & CTO who builds and ships customer-facing products end-to-end, using AI-assisted development to move quickly from idea to production.

About

Founder & CTO who builds and ships customer-facing products end-to-end, using AI-assisted development to move quickly from idea to production. Built and operates Wordathon (wordathon.tech) and is currently building a Swift iOS app synced with the web platform; previously led full lifecycle work including outreach, demos, delivery, and support.

Also brings strong engineering and quality background from remote QA/game testing and technical project coordination, with experience designing test plans, coordinating distributed testers, triaging defects, and reporting trial data. In parallel, maintains people-first customer service through barista roles and volunteering with community mental-health and suicide-prevention initiatives.

  • 7 years' experience
  • Joined July 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Gaming
  • Healthcare
  • Non-Profit Organization
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Retail
  • Professional Services

Work experience· 8 roles

Founder & CTO · Wallace and Friends LLCJun 2026 – Present · 6 mos

Founded an on/off mentoring and technology consulting LLC and built/shipped all of its technology using AI-assisted development tools. Built Wordathon, a JavaScript word game with a global serverless leaderboard (Vercel + Upstash Redis), anti-cheat unit tests, and a four-check CI pipeline. Own the full client lifecycle: outreach, discovery, live product demos for non-technical audiences, scoping, delivery, and support. Currently building a Swift iOS app (iOS) that syncs with the web platform.

Barista (Volunteer/Community Support) · Castro Country ClubMay 2026 – Present · 7 mos

Handled barista duties while offering empathy and kindness to visitors recovering from addictions.

Volunteer (Event Support) · SF Survivors of Suicide Loss Day — American Foundation for Suicide PreventionNov 2025 – Nov 2025 · 1 mo

Assisted with event setup, welcomed and checked in guests, and participated in breakout room sessions offering support to attendees.

Barista · StarbucksJul 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr
Volunteer Interview Support · UCSF Medical Student Training InterviewsOct 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos
Remote Technical Project Coordinator · Amazon RingNov 2021 – Apr 2022 · 6 mos
Remote Q.A. Development Tester, Apex Legends · Respawn EntertainmentJun 2021 – Nov 2021 · 6 mos
Q.A. Test Analyst, Overwatch / Overwatch 2 / Heroes of the Storm · Blizzard EntertainmentMar 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Education

B.A. in Psychology · San Francisco State University0000

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