Dan Koepke
Director Of Engineering, Applications
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Koepke is a product-focused software engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and developer-facing products across startups and large organizations. Currently leading engineering for Polaris at Imply, he designs microservices, APIs, and frontends that power massive-scale analytics built on Apache Druid and streaming platforms like Kafka and Kinesis. He has a track record of growing geographically distributed teams, improving CI/CD and cloud-native product support, and shipping monitoring and platform services at AppDynamics. Earlier roles show deep hands-on backend and infrastructure experience—scaling a gaming PaaS to over a million concurrent players and architecting multi-tenant, BI, and load-testing systems. Known for combining people-first leadership with hands-on coding in Python, Go, C++, and Java, he focuses on creating happy, productive teams that deliver products people love. Based in San Francisco with a BS in Computer Science, he brings both operational depth and product sensibility to data-intensive SaaS.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at San Francisco State University
English
Github Skills (10)
database10
druid10
apache-druid9
directories8
nodejs7
javascript7
linux7
python5
java4
jvm4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Appdynamics/appdynamics-cookbooks
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 27 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 9 months
dkoepke/dkoepke.github.io
Jan 2014 - Apr 2021
A repository about me
Contributions:53 commits, 73 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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