Dan Rice
Senior Engineering Manager at EnergyHub
Greater Harrisburg Area United States
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Top SchoolDan Rice is a Senior Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience building and leading infrastructure and DevOps teams in energy and utilities-focused companies. Currently at EnergyHub, he progressed from hands-on DevOps leadership to senior management after driving resilient infrastructure at SparkMeter and Oracle Utilities (formerly Opower). He combines a mechanical engineering background with pragmatic software craftsmanship—contributing to Ruby/Rails open-source projects like tolk and yaml_db—bringing a systems mindset to both cloud-native operations and legacy modernization. Known for improving testing and refactoring brittle code, he favors incremental, well-tested change that reduces operational risk. Based in the Greater Harrisburg area, he pairs production engineering roots (managing plant systems and IT for a $30M packing company) with cloud infrastructure leadership to bridge operational and development concerns.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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Github Skills (12)
testing10
i18n-js10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ember-i18n10
rails-i18n10
ruby10
internationalization9
localization9
rspec9
yaml7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
yamldb/yaml_db
Oct 2014 - Dec 2021
Rails plugin for a database-independent dump format, data.yml .......... Seeking new maintainers! See https://github.com/yamldb/yaml_db/issues/143
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 45 PRs, 51 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the Rails plugin `yaml_db`, focusing on improving its testing infrastructure and fixing issues. The commits demonstrate a focus on refactoring and cleaning up the codebase, specifically removing redundant code in tests. The user also added an integration test using real ActiveRecord.
databaserails
tolk/tolk
Apr 2014 - Oct 2016
Tolk is a web interface for doing i18n translations packaged as an engine for Rails applications
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 44 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Tolk Rails engine. They addressed deprecation warnings and removed support for older Rails and Ruby versions. The commits involved fixing ActiveRecord preloader issues and upgrading the dummy application to Rails 4.0.11, as well as updating the version and integrating Mocha and Minitest.
railsi18ninternationalizationlocalizationtranslations
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