Daniel Wheeler

Engineering Director

Daniel Wheeler is an experienced software engineer and teacher who works with Next Chapter’s apprentices and engineering staff at partner companies to provide in-depth proficiency and relevant post-prison technical training as Next Chapter’s Engineering Director. In addition to building in-prison curricula for math, physics, and software engineering with The Last Mile and Prison University Project, Dan also worked as an engineer and engineering manager at Dropbox, helping the company scale from 20 to 1500 employees from 2010-2016. Dan holds a B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Physics, and M.Eng in Computer Science from MIT.

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