Dan Kimmel
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Kimmel is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver global-scale cloud infrastructure and measurable business impact. He has driven major cost-saving and scalability initiatives for VM block storage and networking products at Google and AWS, often taking "buck stops here" responsibility for critical data planes serving massive traffic. Deep systems expertise spans primary and backup storage, ZFS, kernel memory management and DTrace—evidenced by open-source contributions to illumos that fixed tracing, ZFS send/receive, and boot/memory issues. He grows teams and technical leadership—scaling organizations from small teams to 100+ engineers—while shaping roadmaps, operational rigor, and cross-org alignment. Based in Kirkland, WA, Dan pairs hands-on kernel-level problem solving with executive-level influence across product, finance, and engineering stakeholders.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 3.92, BS, Computer Science, 3.92 at Brown UniversityBS, Computer Science, 3.9, BS, Computer Science, 3.9 at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (12)
c1710
kernel10
debugging10
low-level-programming10
il10
unix10
c1110
dtrace10
zfs10
kernel-mode10
operating-system10
filesystem9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
illumos/illumos-gate
Mar 2013 - Apr 2017
An open-source Unix operating system -- this is a read-only mirror of the official repository at https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the illumos operating system. Their work involved debugging and improving the DTrace dynamic tracing framework, including fixing an issue with `print()` calls and optimizing output handling. They also made changes to ZFS send/receive functionality by correcting an endianness swap error and adding compression capabilities. In addition, the user addressed issues related to boot processes and memory management within the kernel.
operating-systemunixillumosos
dankimmel/delphix-os
Nov 2015 - Jun 2017
Community developed and maintained version of the OS/Net consolidation
Contributions:114 pushes, 99 branches in 1 year 7 months
capistranodata-exchangeconsolidation
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