Full-stack Rails since 2007, ETL Expert, Organizational Leader

Hi there, I'm Dan!

I'm an engineer who loves delivering happiness to end users through rapid prototyping and delivery. My expertise is in setting architectural vision, but I also thrive wearing multiple hats in fast-paced startup environments. I can cultivate organizational growth by providing effective team leadership, mentorship, and coaching of fellow engineers.

Since focusing my career on Ruby in 2010, I've architected a breadth of products using:
- traditional full-stack and Hotwire-powered Rails,
- Rails APIs for mobile and reactive javascript web clients,
- pure Ruby ETL data pipelines,
- lesser known Ruby frameworks such as Hanami for web, RubyMotion for mobile & DragonRuby for games

My career highlight is building an industry-leading ETL system which powers real-time inventory for billions of GMV on e-commerce menus, along with an automated catalog matching system to upgrade menus with curated product details.

Additionally, I have hands-on experience with the the following related technologies:
- DevOps with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, Railway.app, Fly.io
- Datastores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB
- JS: StimulusJS, Typescript, React, jQuery, Angular
- Swift/iOS, tvOS
- Game dev programming with Godot & GDScript

Let's work together to create something amazing!