Funny how one tiny question can send you down a rabbit hole, right? I heard someone mention Lipinski Dan at this tech meetup last week – just casually dropped his name like everyone should know where he works now. Bugged me for days.
Started simple. Pulled out my phone right there at the coffee machine. Typed “Lipinski Dan” into every job site and social media app I have. LinkedIn, Glassdoor, the works. Frustratingly sparse. Generic profiles, outdated titles. Felt like hitting a brick wall.
Scratching Beneath the Surface
Okay, needed a different plan. Went old-school. Grabbed my laptop Sunday morning. Figured I’d stalk his professional connections. Not proud, but you do what you gotta do. Searched for people he used to work with at that cloud platform startup that folded in ’22. Found three who had moved on. Scrolled their current employer sections. Zilch about Dan.
Got more specific. Checked location tags. His wife posted a photo last month tagged in Boulder. Decent clue. Cross-referenced that with known tech hubs and research labs around there. Made a damn spreadsheet. It was messy. Names of companies, guesswork on areas he’d be in, like AI or cloud stuff.
The Map Pin Moment
This took forever. Dug into recent industry conferences in Denver/Boulder. Scanned speaker lists for AI conferences, cloud security panels… boring stuff. Almost gave up. Then, deep in a forum post about a super niche quantum computing meetup six months ago… boom. Someone quoted a “Dan L.” commenting about hardware integrations. Same last company, same expertise area. Got that jolt.
Armed with “Quantum” and “Boulder,” the search narrowed fast. His name wasn’t plastered anywhere obvious. But! Scoured research papers. Found a preprint release notice buried in a university site for a project he’d co-authored. No affiliation listed on the paper itself, sneaky. Noticed the email domain in the tiny “contact author” section though: . Never heard of it.
Confirming the Gut Feeling
*? Sounded fresh. Hopped onto LinkedIn again, searched the company page. Small team, like 50 people tops. No Dan under employees. But scrolling their timeline… there it was. A low-key post two weeks prior about welcoming “key hires” who drove cutting-edge system architecture “at previous innovators.” Generic, but combined with the research domain match… felt solid.
Final nudge? One of their engineers followed Dan’s mostly dead Twitter. Only followed 30 people. Dan was one. Not proof, sure. But together with the Boulder clue, the research paper trace, and the timing of QuantumNest’s “key hire” post? Yeah. Case closed.
So, where’s Lipinski Dan working? QuantumNest Tech, Boulder. Probably leading architecture on whatever they’re baking in that quantum oven. Took more digging than I thought, like putting together a jigsaw puzzle missing half the box picture. Satisfying to figure out though, that’s for sure. Makes you wonder why companies keep things so secret sometimes.
