Dak Washbrook
engineer @ stealth
Software Engineer with 15+ years of professional experience and a 20+ year track record in software development, known for mastering complex systems, designing AI workflows and systems, and leading scalable, reliable architecture.
Every layer, owned end-to-end.
Drove Kubernetes migrations at NCSoft (AAA launches at 100k+ MAU) and Weedmaps (logistics + Meteor POS), authoring the Groovy/Jenkins pipelines and CRDs. Cut weedmaps.com CI from 40m to 3–5m on GitHub Actions and trimmed observability spend 30% as the engineering rep on DataDog cost optimization. Strategically chose Vercel Fluid Compute for Dunbar workloads and traffic.
AWS · GCP · Kubernetes · Docker · bare-metal Apache · Vercel · Cloudflare · GitHub Actions · DataDog
Six years on Laravel/PHP at Dellamoda — REST API throughput up 600%, $600k/yr e-commerce, smooth XCart → Shopify migration. Rewrote NCSoft's PhalconPHP stack to Node.js/TypeScript, 5x app performance and 5x contributor capacity. Architected Trestle's Bun + OpenAI vector embedding pipeline and Dunbar's Trigger.dev workflows orchestrating Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini for 150+ self-serve users. Currently writing Haskell + PostgreSQL at Mercury.
TypeScript · Node.js · Rust · Python · Haskell · PHP · Go · PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · Drizzle · vector DBs
Introduced GraphQL at NCSoft as the unified data layer across 12+ platform services. Type-safe RPC at Trestle and Dunbar (tRPC), dak.dev (oRPC), and Plaid-backed Linked Accounts at Mercury. Shipped Cannabis online payments and Treez logistics integrations at Weedmaps. MCP servers ship alongside REST.
GraphQL · REST · gRPC · tRPC · oRPC · MCP · webhooks · Plaid
Frontend since Microsoft FrontPage. Rewrote MyAion's legacy C# web app in Next.js/TypeScript — 10x performance at 12k+ MAU. Built Dunbar's Tauri + Rust desktop for automated browsing and data ingestion. Shipped Mercury's async combobox primitives and Linked Accounts modal in React Router 7 + Storybook. Full-stack React on web; React Native/Expo on mobile.
React · Next.js · React Router · React Native · Expo · Tauri · Storybook · Radix UI · Tailwind
Core Team Lead at Weedmaps across Compliance, Point of Sale, and Cannabis Payments — led 8–12 engineers, modernized an acquired logistics codebase, and cut release cadence from months to weekly. Co-founded three companies: Trestle's architecture backed a $2.1M pre-seed and scaled 230 → 2,300 users in under a year; Dunbar reached 150+ self-serve users on angel funding.
Lead by shipping. Pick tools on fit. Don't flinch at a rewrite.
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