Dan King
Technical Lead at Assent
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDan King is a technical lead with 11 years of software engineering experience and deep hands-on expertise across .NET, Java, Ruby on Rails, Go, and Rust. He has led teams and coached Agile practices as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach while driving delivery improvements from build pipelines to production deployments using Jenkins, Buildkite, Docker, and Kubernetes. At Shopify he built and managed a secure, high-performance WebAssembly execution and caching infrastructure, and contributed backend and DevOps work to the widely used Shopify CLI around Spin-based development environments. Comfortable leading both product-facing engineering and platform-level infrastructure, he has a track record of modernizing legacy systems, improving performance at scale, and automating builds and deployments. Based in Ottawa, he combines pragmatic technical leadership with a curiosity for challenging problems and incremental improvements that help teams move faster. He also brings an unusual background in cognition and computation, which informs his methodical approach to system design and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Cognitive Science in Cognition and Computation, Cognitive Science in Cognition and Computation at Carleton UniversityAssociate's Degree Computer Programming, Associate's Degree Computer Programming at Fanshawe College
English
Github Skills (12)
management10
gatsbyjs10
rspec10
environmental10
manage10
shopify-cli10
ruby10
apidoc9
devops9
api9
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the Shopify CLI's back-end functionality and configuration, focusing on features related to Spin instances and environment management. Their work involved modifying API clients and authentication logic to interact with Spin, a development environment. They also updated the CLI's environment variables to correctly utilize Spin for development and testing, demonstrating an understanding of deployment and configuration. Additionally, the user added tests and corrected various URLs and logic to ensure compatibility with Spin and different Shopify environments.
shopifyshopify-cli
dwdking/dotfiles
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
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