Work on software, documentation, and processes to help cross-departmental efficiencies. Also a member of the executive leadership team.Tasks include:* member of biweekly meetings with the company leadership team include CEO, CTO and VPs.* noticing a gap in our go-to-market technical support, building job description for the role (customer integration engineer), interviewing and advising on hiring to fill it* selecting an LMS and creating technical training for sales reps and other members of the sales team, including competitive analysis, demo training, and video product tours* creating reference architectures and reviewing technical documentation* product/market segmentation analysis* improving documentation with long and short form documentation* organizing product strategy meetings and gathering data to inform decisions* product owner for features relating to usage statistics in a downloadable product

Post sales technical, implementation and architectural support.Includes:* assisting in kickoff meetings with technical advice* reviewing technical architectural diagrams and providing client feedback, both pre and post sales* leading effort to automate and document the sales -> tech support hand off process

Creating and disseminating technical content, including blog posts, videos, long form guides, and example applications, about OAuth, identity management and FusionAuth. Built a team of 2 FTEs and multiple contractors. Also a member of the executive leadership team.Duties include:* created KPIs and managed reporting and task planning for team of 2 full time developers and 2 contractors* technical documentation automation and tooling* writing blog posts and documentation for fusionauth.io* managing contract content producers to build content for website and ebooks* investigating and implementing improvements to the website and documentation, including CDNs and OpenAPI* customer support on the forums, github issues and slack* producing ebooks and other marketing support* creating processes and software to create higher quality, more consistent documentation* reviewing documentation produced by others* scripting, recording, editing and publishing videos highlighting FusionAuth features* speaking at meetups, conferences and webinars* building example apps in a variety of languages to document FusionAuth's capabilities* filing bugs to improve functionality and documentation* helped manage overhaul of our documentation and move from Jekyll to Astro* overhauled the technical documentation information architecture two times in four years* wrote, edited and/or managed creation of 26 quickstarts to help devs find value in FusionAuth more quickly

Solving business problems with software. Projects include: * MySQL data recovery* Amazon Machine Learning and AWS architecture consulting.* A scalable back end infrastructure for receiving messages from phones and car modules, using Apache Camel, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Heroku, TestNG, and Jersey * Everything from devops to QA to development for a small startup team. Used logstash and Elastic Search for log management.* Web services client using Axis2 and WSDL to connect to a telecom backend.* Adapt existing kafka, logstash and puppet solution to centralize logging across distributed systems* Integrate an open source workflow engine (Activiti) into an existing workflow infrastructure.* Updated a rails application to add an order form, including Stripe integration.* Deployed web application and wrote APIs to access logo, object and face recognition libraries. Used HBase for data storage.* Evaluated an existing SaaS application, including discussions with customers, review of codebase and business plan review.* Wrote Spring Boot microservices to integrate with larger distributed system for video processing* Updated video parsing system. Used Cloudformation, SQS, SNS and Kinesis.* Mentored and directed junior contractors* Implemented REST APIs with DropwizardPast clients include: * 8z Real Estate* Vu Digital* Small Farm Central* Datalogix/Oracle* Katasi* Kspatial

Blog and mailing list helping new developers with skills they need to succeed in their jobs. Being a developer is so much more than just writing code. https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/

* Built python scripts (workflows) to connected Slack to external APIs, a key piece of the product. While the product was under active development, I built out 10+ of these workflows, working around issues, suggesting improvements and filing bugs with the product team. In addition, to accelerate workflow development, I created a library to interact with the Slack UX (producing BlockKit), set up a CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI, and added automated quality improvement processes including unit testing, code formatting and linting. * Investigated and implemented technology integrations using python 3.7 as directed by the product manager. This typically involved a 1-3 day proof of concept implementation (starting with 'ok, how do we install/start using this?') and then a written report outlining the technology, the integration and any issues. Technologies evaluated included Cloudwatch Logs, Route 53, CloudTrail, Google Compute Engine, Bigquery, AWS Lambda, Ansible, Kinesis Firehose, Grafana, Jenkins, Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, AKS, vanilla k8s), AWS OpsWorks, AWS CloudFormation and OpsGenie.* Wrote a Swagger file for the ipstack API and integrated this API into an application and blog post.* Performed user research to inform the product team by reaching out to my personal network and interested parties found via social media (Reddit). Interviewed SREs and DevOps engineers about their toolset and their reaction to a product demo and delivered reports to the product manager for incorporation into the product roadmap.* Wrote multiple blog posts and shared these across social platforms.* Presented at multiple meetups.* Assisted with tradeshow preparations and demos at AWS Re:Invent 2019.

Helping spread the word about the Transposit platform (think of it like heroku + Zapier).Specifically:* Selected contractor, wrote requirements, project managed and developed an application on the Transposit platform to allow users to update their own customer records for client company. Technologies used: Transposit, DynamoDB, S3, Athena, React.* Collaborated with team members to create a proof of concept MS Teams integration .* Wrote corporate blog posts and example apps showcasing the Transposit platform.* Promoted my and other blog posts across multiple social platforms.* Created and executed backlink promotion plan across social platforms leading to increases in platform signups and website visits.

Quarterly mentoring sessions with Boulder Galvanize members around business and technology topics.

Connecting the world through beautiful technology.Specific responsibilities:* Led team of 9 (employees + contractors), including team meetings, reviews and regular one to ones* Refining interview and hiring processes and hired 5+ technical team members.* Introduced development best practices around CI/CD, security, hackathons and documentation.* Helped with project scoping, initial deployment environment setup and continuing implementation.* Backstop for all technical issues ("if no one else can fix it, send it to Dan...")* Managed existing infrastructure for multiple high traffic events, including 125k simultaneous users during televised sporting event.* Introduced company to multiple clients, leading to more than six figures of revenue.* Promoted and wrote weekly post for the company blog.

Connecting the world through beautiful technology.Specific tasks and accomplishments:* Load tested and built out horizontally scalable PHP solution for Belmont Stakes, capable of handling ~100k simultaneous users* Built out a file upload screen which integrated with a custom bespoke API in Drupal.* Converted a Drupal batch operation to drush queue.* Debugged a Rails application which ran complex queries against a SQL server database to create a revenue dashboard.* Reviewed code of team members.* Reviewed requirements documents for proposals.* Wrote technical blog posts for the corporate blog.* Added CloudWatch integration into ruby and go software.* Made AWS infrastructure changes via CLI, console and puppet.* Mentored development team.

Created and maintained the leading farm share directory in Colorado. Created email course, sent marketing newsletters, created ebooks and sold advertising. Responsible for product direction, marketing, publicity, ad sales, development, etc.

Helped a seed stage startup to help re-localize the food system. The Food Corridor is a SaaS offering which helps shared use kitchens manage their operations, including client management, invoicing, bill payment and document management. Was responsible for building a system which served 50 kitchens and approximately 1000 food businesses. When I left, it was processing approximately $300,000 in transactions a month, and had generated over 13000 invoices.Areas of focus: * software development* strategic planning* customer support* product directionTechnologies used: * Heroku* Rails * MySQL* Sharetribe* AWS (S3/RDS)* jQuery * Stripe* git* Zapier* Twilio

AWS Training Instructor. Taught classes onsite and via remote classroom technology (Adobe Connect) using third party materials and Qwiklabs. Classes taught: * Architecture* Developing with AWS* System Operations* Technical Essentials

Managed a team of ranging in size from two to five support real estate search software. The team maintained and extended existing business critical web software systems while working on new products, including mobile applications and REST APIs. Areas of responsibility:* Creating and working within a budget* Software and vendor evaluation* Project estimation (using agile processes)* Coding* Deployment* QA* Recruiting* Personnel development* Requirements gatheringAccomplishments include: * A custom valuation engine which draws on MLS and public records data including a Backbone.js user facing application. Backend was implemented using Spring.* A reporting process which pulled data from RDBMs, QuickBooks Online, and Google spreadsheets and generated PDF reports delivered to Google Drive, implemented using Spring.* A Cordova app which displayed neighborhood information. This was a Backbone.js app which pulled from several external APIs.* An engine and API for realtor transactions and a wordpress plugin that consumed that API, using Spring and Dropwizard.* A survey and implementation of automation projects across the company. Gathered business needs using interviews with stakeholders and domain knowledge and implementing. Solutions ranged from google spreadsheet custom functions to enabling business users with Zapier to custom code (Java + Spring + Google spreadsheets/Google drive + JSON apis + MySQL).* Led a 6 month effort to research, choose and implement a flagship website vendor for the company.

Managed a team of four. Maintained and extended existing business critical web software systems (web application and batch data processing systems) to help people find their next home. Technologies used:* Java 6/7* shell scripts * Hibernate* Spring MVC* JSTL* MySQL

Researched features for, developed, tested, and supported two high traffic web applications: COhomefinder.com and 8z.com. Technologies used:* shell scripts * MySQL (tuning and database administration)* ant* maven* Eclipse* Java The main project was a webapp built on a struts fork (expresso). One major accomplishment replaced the Expresso ORM with Hibernate and Ehcache; this increased flexibility and performance of the web application.

Assisted with research projects one day a week. Specifically, researched effects of GMOs on bees and options for e-learning.

Consulted and contracted with companies ranging in size from one person to large large companies. Early on, Dan was a hired gun brought into program, but from 2006 on, Dan's clients engaged him to work through the entire stack, from requirements to maintenance.Selected projects include a JPA application, a magento application managed using subversion, and tomcat and apache administration for a large custom java webapp that delivered UI via javascript, GWT compiled javascript and HTML/CSS.

With a small team, defined and built a scalable system to record and report on browser activity.

Worked on teams ranging in size from one to twelve as a junior software developer.