Dan Kennedy
Senior Principal Software Development Engineer at CarGurus
- Role
- Senior Principal Software Development Engineer at CarGurus
- Location
- North Reading, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dan Kennedy
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Experience
Senior Principal Software Development Engineer
Jul 2019 — Present · Boston, MA, US
Leading engineering for CarGurus Labs startup-style initiatives, including:• Lead engineer for an AI-powered chatbot for selling your car on CarGurus — an LLM-drivenconversational product guiding sellers through the vehicle listing and offer process end-to-end.• Designed and built a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and ChatGPT app delivering a rich, AI-nativecar shopping experience within ChatGPT — allowing users to search, compare, and evaluate CarGurusinventory through natural language.• Built and deployed AI-powered tools to enhance internal employee workflows at CarGurus, applying LLMintegration patterns to automate people processes.• Developed Relish Lunch Browser, a Chrome extension for corporate lunch ordering with an optional AINutritional Analysis feature using an LLM to evaluate the nutritional content of each meal.• Built a Slack plugin using AI to manage the delivery and distribution of daily team lunches, includingautomated scheduling and sharing workflows.• Architected and built P2P vehicle marketplace: peer-to-peer car sales platform with identity verification,document validation, and jurisdiction-compliant bill-of-sale generation.• Designed and built IMCO (Instant Max Cash Offer): real-time vehicle offer engine driving a live auctionacross a dealer network, plus vehicle pickup/delivery scheduling system.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Soa
- Oracle
- Agile Methodologies
- Cloud Computing
- Weblogic
- Web Services
- Software Project Management
- Saas
- Software Development
- Javascript
- Software Engineering
- Integration
- Pl/Sql
- Unix
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Enterprise Software
- Xml
- Java
- Sql
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