Dan Ellis
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDan Ellis is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building secure, high-performance systems across cloud, networking and embedded domains. Currently on Azure Sphere at Microsoft, he brings deep expertise in C/C++, Python and Scala and a rare blend of hands-on firmware, SDN and backend architecture work. A serial founder and builder, he has led full-stack product development from a Scala/Akka-based real-time feed service to embedded OS and vehicle telemetry prototypes, and has deployed services on Kubernetes and cloud platforms. His background in security and reverse engineering (from Citrix and networking roles) informs robust, pragmatic designs that scale in production. Based in Seattle, he also shares his explorations publicly via livestreams on vintage ARM emulation and building embedded OSes, demonstrating a continued commitment to low-level craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
3,453reputation
1.7mreached
38answers
78questions
security
top-5%
parallel-processing
top-5%
Github Skills (118)
parallel-processing9
database9
linq9
multidimensional-arrays9
compile-time9
security9
scalajs9
cassandra9
spark9
airtable9
csv8
playframework8
blockchain8
ethereum8
jdbc8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
danellis/jsbeeb
Oct 2011 - Apr 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
reactivedynamics/livefeeds-merchant-sdk-php
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 11 months
phpagent
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