Dan Fredell
Director Of Engineering at Flywheel.io
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDan Fredell is a hands-on engineering leader focused on saving time through automation and streamlined delivery, a philosophy echoed in his GitHub bio: Automate all the things. As Director of Engineering at Flywheel.io, he mentors team leads, champions a DevOps mindset, and reports to the CTO to drive scalable, secure platforms. He has a track record of reducing cloud spend by 20% through vendor vetting and budget advocacy, and of implementing trunk-based development with CI/CD deployed to production, enabling rapid recovery from outages. A natural mentor with a player-coach style, he builds high-performing teams across software development lifecycles and fosters collaboration through internal initiatives and knowledge sharing. His technical breadth spans Java, Python, Linux, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, and he has played a key role in architecting Flywheel's SaaS platform. Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, he blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership and is guided by DevOps principles inspired by Gene Kim.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science (CSCS), 3.20, BS, Computer Science (CSCS), 3.20 at Winona State University
English
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Github Skills (200)
postgres10
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java-lib10
influxdb10
k8s10
camera10
vault10
opentsdb10
pmm10
prometheus10
visualization10
time-series10
terraform10
prometheus-exporter10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
dfredell/ArtNetStack
Mar 2016 - Nov 2023
ArtNet JAVA Lib (Compatible with protocol version 3)
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
java-libjavaartnet
dfredell/AuroraDMX
Nov 2014 - Dec 2020
Android app to control lighting devices via ArtNet or sACN/ E1.31
Contributions:176 commits, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 6 years 3 months
sacnartnetdmx512lighting-controlandroid
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