Summary
Dan Barnes is a senior engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling platform and cloud infrastructure, currently leading platform engineering at Asurion from Ashburn, VA. He excels at driving cross-functional initiatives—CI/CD, OpenShift automation, and tooling—that turn operational complexity into reliable developer velocity. His career traces hands-on roles from UNIX systems administration through AWS and platform engineering to senior leadership, giving him deep technical credibility and a client-focused approach. Known for blending technical ownership with people leadership, he consistently delivers scalable systems that improve user experience and business outcomes. A practical problem-solver, he brings uncommon continuity and institutional knowledge from long tenure at a single enterprise, enabling faster, lower-risk transformation.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Clark College
Ferris State University