Dan Denney
Principal Data Architect
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Denney is a Principal Data Architect with nine years in senior data and database leadership and a long career building reliable data platforms across San Diego enterprises. He specializes in making AI initiatives trustworthy and scalable by modernizing data architectures, operationalizing analytics, and applying advanced T-SQL tuning and performance practices. Dan has led architecture and database teams at PlanetArt, BioTelemetry, Omnitracs and Cox, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership to deliver production-ready data solutions. He moves comfortably between legacy database modernization and cloud-native patterns, with a practical focus on auditability and operational resilience. Based in San Diego, he pairs formal training from UC San Diego and specialized SQL training with decades of on-the-ground experience turning complex data challenges into maintainable systems. A detail-oriented technologist, he often surfaces non-obvious optimizations that reduce cost and risk while accelerating AI readiness.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoCIS, CIS at Coleman CollegeAdvanced T-SQL Querying Programming and Tuning for SQL Server with Itzik Ben-Gan, Advanced T-SQL Querying Programming and Tuning for SQL Server with Itzik Ben-Gan at SolidQ
English, t-sql
Stackoverflow
111reputation
512reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (11)
microsoft-sql-server10
sql-server10
data-tools10
ssms10
sql10
microsoft10
mssql10
tsql10
microsoft-sql10
sharepoint6
reporting-services6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
sql3d/SQLScripts
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
sql3d/sql-docs
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server, tools such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) , SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) etc.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
data-servertechnical-documentationsqlserversql-serversql-server-management-studio
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