Dakota Schneider
Software Engineer at AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services Company
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDakota Schneider is a software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of experience building tooling, quality, and automation for large-scale products. Currently on the full-stack control plane team at AWS Elemental, Dakota focuses on high-performance, high-availability systems that deliver live broadcast video to millions. Previously at Apple they created cross-platform UI integration test frameworks and pipelines used widely across streaming teams to accelerate validation workflows. Dakota has deep CI and SRE experience from maintaining Beaker—the Puppet acceptance testing harness with millions of downloads—where they led a major v4.0 release that cut install times 5–10x and improved modularity. A longtime open-source contributor and core developer on popular moderator tooling for Reddit, they blend backend/devops chops with practical UX sensibilities. Outside engineering, Dakota’s background teaching Aikido informs a calm, de-escalation-first approach to mentoring and incident response.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Lewis and Clark CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Sir Francis Drake High SchoolUniversity College London
English, Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (23)
ruby10
web-application9
javascript9
command-line-interface9
jquery9
wordpress9
css9
htaccess9
command-line9
automation9
cli9
automations9
shell8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/beaker
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 36 commits, 24 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dakota made significant contributions to the `voxpupuli/beaker` repository, focusing on improving the testing harness. They fixed documentation and spec tests related to SSH preferences. Furthermore, they addressed issues with role handling within the host manager and implemented early exit functionality in the CLI. Additionally, the user enhanced the system by adding host and file-related methods, including `chown`, `chgrp`, and `ls_ld` to aid system file management and integration.
acceptance-testingpuppettestingacceptanceharness
Dakta/reddit-scraper
Feb 2014 - Dec 2016
A real-time reddit comment scraper. Grabs and parses JSON into a database.
Contributions:20 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
prawreddit-commentdatabasescraperjson
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