Daniel Rusk
CTO at Thorn Technologies LLC
Westminster, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Rusk is a seasoned software engineer and CTO with 11 years of professional experience and a strong specialty in AWS cloud architecture and application development. As founder/leader at Thorn Technologies he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership—designing scalable, serverless and containerized systems for IoT, concurrent file processing, and high-traffic web and mobile backends. His full-stack pedigree spans Java Spring, Node.js, Python serverless, PHP, iOS/Android, and modern front-end frameworks, and he regularly moves between architecture, hiring, and delivery. He has taught computer science and database design at the college level, reflecting a knack for translating complex concepts into practical instruction. A longtime entrepreneur and co-founder of a location-based social app, he pairs product-minded engineering with operational rigor to keep services resilient under load. Based in Westminster, MD, he brings pragmatic engineering leadership grounded in real-world systems and AWS certification-driven expertise.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (76)
testing10
ios-application10
developer-tools9
android-application9
python9
localstack9
blaze9
android-applications9
aws9
cocoapods9
aws-cloud9
continuous-integration9
serverless8
port-forwarding8
schema8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Lotame/cc-android-sdk
May 2017 - Aug 2017
This open source library can be leveraged by Lotame clients to collect data from within their Android applications.
Contributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
android-applicationandroid-applications
ThornTechPublic/oss-emulator
Nov 2023 - Mar 2026
OSS Emulator
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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