Work With Me
Hi, I’m Dan 👋
I’ve been working in tech since 2007 as a full-stack web application developer, team lead, and enterprise architect.
I am passionate about:
📓 Clear technical communication
💻 Developer happiness
✨ Product design
âš“ Resilient systems
🚀 Hobby rocketry
Engineering isn’t bounded by the stack. Shipping the right things made the right way takes people, culture, strategy, focus, and experimentation.
I’m Looking For
- A mission-driven, product-focused organization. These criteria are a proxy for an organization that can:
- Formulate and execute an effective strategy
- Balance the four implementation risks and focus on what’s important
- Provide challenges that require innovation and deep work
- A senior technical role; staff engineer or engineering lead
- Teammates that will help me grow and learn new things
- A generative organizational culture
- BONUS: A role that can take advantage of my deep experience with Ruby on Rails
Location
- A remote-first team—preferably asynchronous In-person meetings are invaluable in some circumstances including building relationships and intense bursts of collaboration—like a pop-up studio, or effective brainstorming.
- I am open to a hybrid role in the Boston metro area
- I will not relocate to any state where reproductive rights are not protected
Skills
I am a rigorous, versatile, software engineer with a broad base of experience. I am equally adept at thinking, writing, and functioning at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. I am equally comfortable:
- Talking with executives about goals and direction
- Discussing pros and cons of decisions with team members
- Helping junior team members on their path to mastery
- Discerning a business need then designing and implementing a solution
- Assessing and realigning a business process or procedure
- Troubleshooting an issue with a production server or service Assuming it is some flavor of Linux. My skills and experience with a Microsoft stack are limited.
I have extensive technical skills and have been actively growing my expertise in higher-order concerns like product ownership, executive management, and organizational performance.
- APIs
- 10+ years
- AWS
- 4 years
- Agile
- 10+ years
- Application Development
- 10+ years
- Bash
- 10+ years
- Bootstrap
- 5 years
- CI/CD
- 10+ years
- CSS
- 10+ years
- Docker
- 4 years
- Enterprise Architecture
- 5 years
- Git
- 10+ years
- GitHub
- 10+ years
- HTML5
- 10+ years
- JavaScript
- 10+ years
- JSON
- 10+ years
- Linux
- 10+ years
- MySQL
- 8 years
- Okta
- 4 years
- PostgreSQL
- 5 years
- REST
- 10+ years
- Relational databases
- 10+ years
- Ruby on Rails
- 10+ years
- Ruby
- 10+ years
- SDLC
- 5 years
- Software Testing
- 10+ years
- SQL
- 5 years
- SSH
- 10+ years
- SVN
- 3 years
- Technical writing
- 5 years
- User Interface (UI)
- 10+ years
- User Experience (UX)
- 5+ years
- Web design
- 10+ years
- Web development
- 10+ years
Trivia
- I was the 2132nd person to get a GitHub account when I signed up as @danhorst in 2008. In June 2022 there were 83 million user accounts on GitHub putting me in the first 0.003% of users.
- I started working with Rails version 1.2. It’s come a long way since then.