Dan Fredell
Director Of Engineering at Flywheel.io
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDan Fredell is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading platform and DevOps teams, currently shaping platform strategy and scaling engineering at Flywheel.io. He specializes in automation, cloud cost optimization, and secure SaaS architecture, having driven a 20% reduction in cloud spend and led the design of a new scalable platform. A pragmatic leader and coach, he mentors team leads, fosters a DevOps mindset, and balances technical delivery with executive-level strategic planning. Based in Eden Prairie, MN, Dan combines deep infrastructure expertise—Kubernetes, Terraform, monitoring and runbooks—with a flair for running cultural initiatives like hackathons to boost morale and knowledge sharing. Not obviously stated but consistent across roles, he prefers practical automation that saves people time and reduces toil, turning operational pain points into repeatable, reliable processes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science (CSCS), 3.20, BS, Computer Science (CSCS), 3.20 at Winona State University
English
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
dfredell/ArtNetStack
Mar 2016 - Nov 2023
ArtNet JAVA Lib (Compatible with protocol version 3)
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
java-libjavaartnet
dfredell/AuroraDMX
Nov 2014 - Dec 2020
Android app to control lighting devices via ArtNet or sACN/ E1.31
Contributions:176 commits, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 6 years 3 months
sacnartnetdmx512lighting-controlandroid
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