Dan Collins
Senior Software Dev Engineer at Expedia Group
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Collins is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 12 years at Expedia Group, building cloud-native Kotlin/Java microservices, Kubernetes agents, and infrastructure-as-code to operate high-throughput streaming and security platforms. He combines hands-on backend engineering with DevOps and AWS expertise—provisioning ECS, Vault/Consul clusters, and automating compliance, logging and orchestration pipelines with Lambda, Step Functions and Athena. His background spans large-scale JVM systems, big-data logging pipelines and performance troubleshooting from roles at Electronic Arts and early fintech and retail projects, giving him strong operational instincts for reliability and observability. As editor of Expedia Group’s tech publication, he helps shape engineering discourse while still contributing code and CI/CD tooling. Based in London, he pairs a Distinction MSc in Intelligent Systems with practical experience dating back to embedded/control engineering, bringing a pragmatic, system-level perspective that bridges research, tooling and production delivery. Outside work he’s known for dad-humour and an outspoken commitment to climate change—traits that make technical leadership unexpectedly human.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Completed 1st & 2nd years, BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Completed 1st & 2nd years at University of BristolHND Design (Visual Communication), Graphic Design, Merit, HND Design (Visual Communication), Graphic Design, Merit at University of the West of EnglandMSc Intelligent Systems, Informatics, Distinction (1st), MSc Intelligent Systems, Informatics, Distinction (1st) at University of SussexA Level Study, A Level Study at Weymouth College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (93)
cucumber10
java10
cucumber-jvm10
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golang9
stream9
maven9
smile9
jvm9
discovery9
metadata-management9
avro8
stream-processing8
gradle-plugin8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jakecollins/hello-chef-world
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 22 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 10 months
vagrantchef-soloansiblesolovirtualbox
techabstraction/bash-for-devops
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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