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Hi there, I'm Dan!
I'm a Minneapolis-based software developer currently working as a ruby on rails engineer at For Us All.
About Me
Where I've Been
Science Museum of Minnesota @
Software for Good - Software Apprentice Mentor
2022: Summary
Partnership with the Science Museum of Minnesota and Software for Good for training early-stage career engineers in Software Development and UI/UX Design.Tech Stack
Platform
Total Expert - Senior Software Engineer
2021: Summary
As part of the Campaign Management team, I supported feature development efforts for Total Expert's Journey VueJS canvas as well as improvements to the platform's automated print campaigns. Our team also improved reporting capabilities for Journey metrics with some enhanced lead capture modeling.
Flipgrid @
Microsoft - Platform Analytics Engineer
2020-2021: Summary
Platform engineering and analytics support for the Microsoft Flipgrid platform during the height of COVID-driven remote education. Initiatives included migration of legacy software to Azure Kubernetes Service, multi-lingual transcription support through Azure Media Services, database performance tuning and scaling with RDS Proxy and throughput enhancements of the datalake ETL pipeline on AWS Redshift.
Tech Stack
Platform
Integrations
ReachLocal @
Gannett Digital - Software Engineer
2018-2020: Summary
Full stack development for Gannett's B2B SaaS solutions for ReachLocal. Solutions included larger Ruby on Rails application on AWS ECS, with smaller microservices deployed as lambdas and Google Cloud cloud functions. As part of this particular M&A engagement, lead attribution was migrated from Cassandra to MySQL as a datastore through the use of AWS Kinesis and Firehose.
Platform
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Full Stack Development Instructor
2018-2019: Summary
Full stack instruction of the MERN stack to prospective computer science students at the University of Minnesota. Concepts included: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS, ExpressJS, MySQL and MongoDB.
Apruve - Senior Rails Engineer
2017-2018: Summary
E-commerce integration development and support for the Apruve CMaaS (Credit Management as a service) platform. Frontend development for Apruve's paperless credit application process through angular schema forms.
Tech Stack
Telemetry
Integrations
The Garage @
Optum - Software Consultant
2015-2017: Summary
Feature development for UnitedHealth Group's skunkworks group primarily focused on B2C solutions for food delivery and telehealth applications.