Dan Benson is a Director of Engineering at Medium. He possess expertise in linux, perl, scalability, mysql, cloud computing and 11 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Dan is an incredibly versatile technology generalist who can work the stack from both an operations-sysadmin and programmer perspective. He's a joy to both work with and be around. Never a bash command he's not happy to give you. As the lead web developer, I worked both for and with Dan from project to project. I found him to be extremely thorough and dilligent about doing things right the first time and this inspired me to get things right on my end as well. His knowledge of… Show more" and "Dan built out our colo presence at Mevio, consisting of a hundred odd servers, power, network, enterprise class storage and all of the software, support contracts and remote management needed to keep it happy. When he brought me to tour the facility, the guys that run the place said it was by far the best-organized cage they had, this at a place with some pretty heavy hitters. When our 3rd party video encoding engine became both unreliable and too expensive, Dan built a compact… Show more"