Dan Bowling
Lead DevOps Engineer at University of Maryland
Missoula, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolDan Bowling is a Lead DevOps Engineer with two decades in technology and over a decade focused on web and infrastructure roles across higher education and accessibility product teams. He leads cloud and DevOps strategy at the University of Maryland Library after architecting resilient on-prem Kubernetes, CI/CD, and automated recovery practices at the University of Montana that achieved >99.95% availability. A hands-on full-stack developer turned DevOps lead, Dan has driven large-scale CMS consolidations, performance optimizations (3x–19x faster page loads), and accessibility work contributing to the widely used axe-core project. He balances operational rigor—IaC, automated smoke tests, Vault/Jenkins integrations—with practical product delivery, having overseen a 5,000+ page redesign and negotiated compliance wins around WCAG and OCR. Based in Missoula, MT, he blends academic and enterprise perspectives to turn legacy systems into scalable, auditable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology - Secondary Education, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology - Secondary Education at Northland CollegeAnoka-Ramsey Community College
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Github Skills (21)
accessibility10
compatible10
javascript10
selenium10
selenium-ide10
browser-support10
axe10
ax10
test-automation10
codeigniter6
php6
model-view-controller6
google-chrome6
hiera6
css6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dequelabs/axe-core
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:42 reviews, 29 commits, 32 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on updating and maintaining the test suite for the `axe-core` accessibility engine. Their contributions included updating dependencies, fixing test failures related to Selenium and browser compatibility issues, and refactoring test code to use virtual nodes for improved performance. They also implemented and refined tests for specific accessibility rules, ensuring the engine's accuracy and coverage across different scenarios. A significant portion of the commits involved adapting tests to handle changes in the browser environment and external libraries.
accessibilityui-testingaxea11y
dbowling/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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