Dan Macneil Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Albuquerque, NM, US

We're a rails shop. Maybe 80 different apps to help run the hospital. I've done a little work on a Rails app to do what CFEngine does, but more user friendly. Right now I'm working on migrating 32 ColdFusion CFLM from ColdFusion 11 to Lucee.

Dallas, TX, US

Contributor: Many (hard to count) small documentation / bug fixesCreator: https://github.com/omacneil/diffantLead: https://launchpad.net/mvhub

Cambridge, MA, US

• Ported 774 files and 86,000 lines of code from Python 2 to Python 3.
• Maintained a tool to check configuration of 500,000+ machines for conflicts. and reduced run time of frequently-used query from 4 hours to 15 seconds.
• Maintained tool written in Perl used to install 500,000+ machines.
• Maintained tool written in Python used to manage processes on 500,000+ machines.
• Provided last level user support, handling the most difficult issues.
• Created FAQ, summarizing answers provided in support tickets and reduced ticket volume by 50%.

Boston, MA, US

• Wrote Ruby script to provision Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances with the Chef Knife EC2 plugin.
• Wrote Python3 (Boto3) script to simplify cloud formation in FI environment.
• Produced 5,000 lines of production code in Ruby to implement 14 Chef Cookbooks and 29 Chef Knife plugins.
• Performed code review for approximately 100 pull requests.

• Manually deployed 3 Tomcat applications every week.
• Performed disc space capacity planning before the holiday rush to verify we had enough space.
• Wrote Nagios Plugin in Python to alert if a set of cron jobs attempt to run more than once.
• Used NumPy and Pandas to replace a manual Excel process, creating statistical summaries and scatter plots with a Python script.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Migrated hand-built pet KVM host running code review Webapp (Phabricator) from KVM host to AWS EC2, loading configuration into Puppet.
• To facilitate office move, migrated core/dev DNS, dynamic DNS, DHCP servers, zones and domains from flat Class A IP addresses locally and on AWS to 6 VLANs in Class B IP range, loading configuration into Puppet.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Build new application clusters.
• Provided Level 3 support.
• Monitored and resolved 1500-3000 alerts per day.
• Provided monthly on-call / pager duty.
• Performed backup/restore.
• Administered approximately 350 application servers.Accomplishments.

Lowell, MA, US

• Analyst Duties
• Wrote 600 SQL queries per year.
• Configured software and trained users to correctly perform complex HUD Section 8 rent calculations, collaborating with vendor to correct software bugs that caused calculation errors.
• Combined data from multiple SQL server databases with multiple non-SQL server databases to report on client demographics.DBA Duties
• Backed up, restored, and tuned SQL server 2005 and 2012 databases.
• Planned, conducted, and evaluated disaster recovery drills.

• Ran monthly meetings with stakeholders to set development priorities.
• Translated user desires into user stories.
• Tracked and fixed bugs.
• Moved tasks up and down in the priority queue in the Pivotal Tracker software.
• Wrote scripts to extract data to create bug metrics such as time-to-fix.
• Tested as-built software for compliance with specifications.