Dan Fey
Staff Software Engineer at Coastal Community Bank
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Fey is a Staff Software Engineer and platform builder with 11+ years of experience designing systems that support hundreds of engineers, millions of customers, and billions of data points. He combines framework-level application development with distributed systems, event sourcing/CQRS, and domain-driven design to deliver resilient digital banking and high-throughput SaaS platforms. Comfortable across the stack, Dan has shipped services in TypeScript/Node, PHP (Laravel), Python, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and multiple databases while also owning CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud automation. He’s led large-scale data migrations and performance optimizations—splitting Elasticsearch indexes by account and building flexible data pipelines—and introduced extensive automated testing and developer tooling. A compassionate engineering manager and community leader (Director at Open Sacramento), he prioritizes mentoring, thoughtful decision-making, and measurable impact on teams and customers. Quick to learn and curious about functional programming and category theory, he blends high-level strategy with careful attention to deep technical detail.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Information Sciences and Technology, B.S Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State UniversityBS Information Sciences and Technology, BS Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State College of Information Sciences and TechnologyRandolph High School
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Github Skills (113)
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http-client10
satisfactory10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
hoppscotch10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
feydan/auto-garden
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Tools for setting up an automated garden, including watering.
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
wateringgardensetting
code4sac/councilmatic-stack
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
Stack for running the Councilmatic stack
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
councilmatic
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