Dan Dooley
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDan Dooley is a Principal Software Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand, with a decade of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native systems primarily in Golang. He has led teams and owned production-critical services—most recently centralised authorisation at Xero serving thousands of requests per second with >99.99% availability—and now drives platform efforts at Atlassian. Dan blends hands-on backend development, DevOps and Terraform-led infrastructure design, and mentorship to elevate both technical quality and team capability. His background spans full-stack and mobile work, giving him strong systems thinking across API, SDK and operational surfaces. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Otago and has a pragmatic track record of migrating legacy auth systems into scalable, observable cloud services. A detail that often surprises peers: he pairs deep reliability engineering instincts with a history of customer-facing roles early in his career, which informs his focus on usable developer experiences.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science, Computer Science, Master of Applied Science, Computer Science at University of OtagoNCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 3 at Waimate High School
English
Stackoverflow
35reputation
1kreached
2answers
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Github Skills (61)
json10
meta10
authorization10
sensor10
directive10
open-policy-agent9
aws-sdk9
policies9
rego9
scanning9
credentials9
compliance9
cloud-native8
wms8
declarative8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danieldooley/delta
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Holds meta data information about the GeoNet sensor network.
Contributions:34 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 1 month
metameta-datasensorsensor-networkgeonet
danieldooley/fdsn
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
FDSN Web Services
Contributions:13 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months
towerweb-servicesponylang
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