Why, hello! I'm Daniel Lindsley.

Experience

RevSys

12/2021 - Current (Software Engineer)

Developed an API backend & React-based SPA frontend for a white-labeled small business application. Upgraded a learning platform's backend & frontend through several major framework versions.

Routable

06/2021 - 11/2021 (Principal Software Engineer)

Converted a large codebase to a container-based setup as part of improving CI/CD. Assisted in redesigning a large monolithic codebase into a service-based approach. Several internal technical planning documents for pending projects. Worked on improving a bulk import system.

Cornea

02/2020 - 05/2021 (Software Engineer)

Built a web-based mapping tool & scientific platform to support wildfire firefighting. Implemented several scientific whitepapers from scratch to compute potential control locations & suppression difficulty index, as well as all the component calculations. Also involved a wide array of data ingest, and building out a full JS frontend to support it. Built out & automated full AWS infrastructure.

BriteCore

01/2019 - 01/2020 (Software Engineer)

Rebuilt the development environment used by all Gen2 developers, based on Docker & Compose. Rewrote the bootstrapping process for new environments, cutting new setup time from days down to 20 minutes. Provided user support & 8 releases for a community of ~150 developers. Ad-hoc managed a team of 4 for several months. Helped improve performance, security & test coverage.

Urban Airship

03/2014 - 01/2019 (Senior Web Developer)

Worked on the Urban Airship user interface, including several major features around timezones, third-party integrations, data migrations and a team-based permission system. Performed many code reviews, established internal documentation/procedures & spent quite a bit of time mentoring.

Amazon Web Services

03/2013 - 03/2014 (Python SDE II)

Worked on boto, including adding a high-level interface for DynamoDB(2), approximately a dozen releases & many service updates. Also developed the initial code for boto3. Conducted a number of interviews, many code reviews & time mentoring.

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Toast Driven

05/2011 - 12/2012 (Owner/Founder/Head Bit Herder)

Ran my own Python/Django consultancy. Originally just me, we had as many as three people. Helped many clients with their RESTful APIs, integrating search as well as general development.

Mediaphormedia

06/2008 - 04/2011 (Senior Web Developer)

Worked for the birthplace of Django developing Ellington, an award-winning news CMS. Ported it to Django 1.0, vastly revised the search functionality, added an API, worked on a Q&A app, lots of importers.

Forkinit

12/2009 - 02/2011 (Co-founder)

Developed a more modern recipe site. Took a structured approach, parsing recipe bodies to extract data. Allowed for "forking" a recipe (start with a base & be able to make your changes).

Toast Driven (Round 1)

04/2008 - 05/2008 Owner

Run as a Ruby on Rails shop for short period of time. Worked on a reporting site (using Flex, Actionscript & Rails) to produce nice charts/graphs for surveying software.

Live Oak

11/2005 - 04/2008 Web Developer

Did PHP/MySQL development for a variety of clients. Tasks included developing on multi-lingual CMSes, several e-commerce sites, hosting & server administration, & the development of a PHP5 web framework called Acorn. Also some Rails development for a client.

nFusion

01/2007 - 04/2007 Contractor

Developed a e-sales application for a Fortune 500 sales team using PHP/MySQL & a custom PHP5 framework similar to Sinatra/Rails.

WTS Bank

06/2005 - 11/2005 Developer

Used Perl & Oracle to help process online ACH transactions.

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