Dan Na

Director of Engineering at Squarespace

Dan Na, Director of Engineering at Squarespace

Dan Na is currently the Director of Engineering at Squarespace, leading the Market Expansion engineering organization which drives Squarespace's product expansion to new geographies and market segments.1 He has been with Squarespace since July 2021, previously serving as the Senior Engineering Manager of the Platform and Product International Engineering teams.1

Some key facts about Dan Na:

He was one of the founding engineers of Squarespace's International Engineering effort, helping architect and deploy their internal suite of I18N code libraries, translation workflows, and application abstractions around managing locales and languages.1
Prior to Squarespace, he was an Engineering Manager at Etsy from 2013-2017, working on teams spanning Mobile Web, Performance, Front-end Infrastructure and Accessibility.1
He has given conference talks on topics like transitioning to Sass at scale, and has written blog posts on engineering management and his views on working as a Staff Engineer.1
In addition to his professional work, Dan is the founder of Cheekswab.org, an organization that speaks and coordinates bone marrow drives in New York City and the east coast.1

Dan Na's LinkedIn username is danielna.1

Experience

Director of Engineering, Market Expansion at Squarespace

Engineering Manager at Etsy, focusing on Accessibility & Product Infrastructure, Worked on web application development utilizing ASP.NET MVC, C#, PHP/PostgreSQL, and authored articles on emergent mobile and web technologies.

Education

BSE in Systems Engineering; Management Information Systems from University of Virginia. Also studied Electrical Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania.