Daniel Hilse
Daniel Hilse
Boulder, CO · MST (UTC-7)Available February 2026

Full-stack developer building
calm, useful software.

Web apps and systems designed to be fast, clear, and predictable in everyday use. ~10 years shipping product work using React and Python.

Selected Work

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01

Archipelago

Cross-sectional market analysis tool with interactive charts for comparing 500+ stocks across multiple momentum metrics. Built to replace spreadsheet-driven research where rank tables obscure distribution and clustering.

PythonNext.jsPostgreSQL
02

Boulevard Quartz

Commercial real estate aggregator that scrapes regional broker sites and unifies search across 5,000+ listings. Replaced a client's daily 5-site workflow while running under $30/month.

PythonNext.jsPostgreSQL
03

Nonprofit ROI Calculator

Embeddable ROI calculator for nonprofit campaigns with real-time projections and branded PDF exports. Designed for embedding on third-party Webflow sites.

Next.jsTypeScriptReact
04

Customer Reference Agent

Internal AI search tool that pulls customer quotes from Salesforce with semantic search and confidence scoring. Replaced the mid-pitch "can you find me a quote?" call.

ClaudeNext.jsVercel AI SDK
05

Blog Content Audit

AI-assisted content audit that classified 500+ posts into strategic use cases and surfaced a 62% acquisition skew that was invisible in the spreadsheet.

PythonClaudeNext.js
06

pATCHES

Music education platform and JavaScript plugin ecosystem reaching 2M+ visitors with $200k+ in plugin sales since 2016.

JavaScriptAWSWeb Analytics
07

Listen Too

Generates a shareable playlist from recent Spotify activity in seconds.

Next.jsTypeScriptOAuth

About

I've spent about a decade building product-focused software, often in roles where the problem is underspecified and the constraints are real. Performance, cost, reliability, and user trust are top of mind when optimizing for user experience. My work spans frontend, backend, and data, with a focus on AI-assisted workflows and analytics-heavy products. I'm also a 3× founder. Building and operating pATCHES taught me the full lifecycle. It's a mix of unclear requirements, tradeoffs under pressure, and the unglamorous work of keeping systems stable once people depend on them.

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonSQL

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsNode.jsDjangoFastAPI

Data & Infrastructure

PostgreSQLTimescaleDBDynamoDBAWS (EC2, RDS, S3)GCPGitHub ActionsJest

Experience

2024 — Present

Archipelago

Lead Engineer

Technical strategy and development for a real-time financial analytics platform

2024 — 2025

Act-On

Freelance Developer

AI-powered sales enablement tools and automated content workflows

2023 — 2024

Freelance

Full-Stack Developer

Data-heavy web applications for startups and small businesses

2022

Veteran's United

SEO / Python

Search optimization tooling and internal Python automation

2021 — 2022

Marpipe

Head of Product

Product strategy and roadmap for a creative testing SaaS platform

2018

Ableton, AG

Learning Resources

Educational content and documentation for music production software

2016 — Present

pATCHES

Founder / Developer

Built and operate a music education platform reaching 2M+ visitors

2016 — 2017

Trulaske College of Business

MBA Program

University of Missouri