Dalton Maahs
Software Engineer at Surest
Elk River, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDalton Maahs is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable testing and data quality systems, currently focused on Data Quality Engineering at Surest. He designs and maintains integration testing pipelines for data lake ETL workflows and has led efforts to standardize quality engineering practices across Data Engineering and Data Science teams. Previously he built an automated performance testing suite for a benefits API from scratch in six months, demonstrating pragmatic delivery under tight timelines. A strong advocate of test-driven development and automated testing, he pairs backend and database expertise (SQL and NoSQL) with fluency in Linux/Windows and Git-based workflows. Dalton is an active open-source contributor—most notably to the Rust tldr client tealdeer—and has published data analysis research on COVID-19 case patterns against Benford’s Law. Based in Elk River, MN, he brings a curious, break-it-and-fix-it approach to deeply understand tools and systems while prioritizing production safety.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Software Engineering College Of Science and Engineering, B.S. in Software Engineering College Of Science and Engineering at St. Cloud State UniversityComputer Science - AS Computer Science, Computer Science - AS Computer Science at Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Github Skills (145)
cursor10
wrapping10
javascript9
rust9
pager9
discord9
tui9
open-source9
orange9
console9
cli8
command-line-parser8
linux8
automount8
highlighting8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dmaahs2017/advent-of-code
Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
Advent of Code is fun :)
Contributions:4 PRs, 119 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
python
dmaahs2017/tealdeer
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
Contributions:50 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 11 months
rusttldr
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