Dan Fauxsmith
Vice President, Publishing Operations
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Fauxsmith is a publishing operations leader with 12+ years driving technical learning products at O’Reilly Media, currently serving as Vice President, Publishing Operations. He builds and leads cross-functional teams that deliver print, ebook, video, and web content, guiding migrations of authoring toolchains (DocBook → Asciidoc → Markdown/HTML) and a Git-backed Atlas platform for single-source publishing. Comfortable at the intersection of editorial, production, and engineering, he translates business strategy into reliable workflows, tooling requirements, and quality controls while mentoring teams through change. His background spans scientific journals at Cell Press/Elsevier to modern digital learning, giving him deep domain knowledge in both academic and technical publishing. An MBA and a graduate certificate in information systems complement his hands-on production experience and make him equally fluent in operations metrics and technical product decisions. Outside work he applies his biology training to a long-running plant-identification website, reflecting a restless curiosity that informs his approach to learning products.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Biology, B.A., Biology at West Virginia UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Isenberg School of Management, UMass AmherstGraduate Certificate, Information Systems, Graduate Certificate, Information Systems at Northeastern University
Github Skills (22)
1c10
java9
bitcoin9
blockchain9
tdd9
elasticsearch-client9
web-development8
bitcoin-api8
python8
conventions8
desktop8
javascript8
elasticsearch6
mongodb6
cqrs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
oreillymedia/binder-trees-forest
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
oreillymedia/binder-support-vector-machines
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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