Dan Olson
Staff Software Engineer at TrueCar, Inc.
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Olson is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining web-facing systems across retail and enterprise domains, currently driving engineering efforts at TrueCar in Alpharetta, GA. He has a strong backend focus with hands-on experience improving robustness and security in widely used Ruby/Rails libraries, including contributions to the globalid gem that hardened SignedGlobalID verifiers and edge-case handling. Dan has progressed through senior and staff roles at Best Buy, Pearson VUE, and Code 42, consistently delivering reliable systems for large-scale customers. Trained as a jazz performer, he brings a creative, improvisational approach to problem solving and system design, combining disciplined engineering with an eye for resilient, maintainable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Jazz Performance, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Jazz Performance at New School UniversityRUM
Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
testing9
unit-test9
minitest9
rspec9
object-oriented-programming8
api-design7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rails/globalid
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Identify app models with a URI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dan focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the `globalid` gem. Their contributions primarily involved refining the handling of `SignedGlobalID` verifiers, including ensuring proper initialization, resetting verifiers in test environments, and allowing for a verifier option during object creation. They also addressed edge cases related to nil verifier scenarios in both the `create` and `parse` methods, making the library more reliable. These changes ensure the secure and correct operation of globally unique identifiers within the Rails application framework.
ruby-on-railsurirailsactivemodelidentify
code42/code42_api_ruby
Feb 2013 - Oct 2014
Ruby gem and examples for the Code 42 API (CrashPlan)
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 8 months
ruby
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