Dan Herrera
Engineering Manager, ML Researcher Tooling at bytewax
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Herrera is an engineering leader with 17 years of experience building data and ML infrastructure, currently managing ML researcher tooling at Netflix and serving as VP of Engineering at Bytewax. He blends hands-on backend and test automation expertise—contributing benchmarking tools, an execute_directly() function, and Criterion integration to the popular Bytewax Python stream-processing project—with strategic leadership across startups and scale-ups like GitHub and Simple Finance. Based in Portland, he has a strong track record in data engineering and performance-focused systems, shipping measurable improvements in testing and runtime behavior. Known for bridging researcher workflows and production reliability, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to making ML experimentation reproducible and performant.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
stream-processing10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
python10
testing10
rust9
data-engineering8
architecture5
architectures5
data-structures4
data-structure4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bytewax/bytewax
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Python Stream Processing
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:39 releases, 447 reviews, 151 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the development of benchmarking tools and features within the bytewax library, adding the `execute_directly()` function and integrating the criterion library for performance testing. They implemented new tests and added input configurations. The user also refactored and restructured Python imports and added a webserver.
stream-processingdeltapythonstreaming-datadata-science
whoahbot/dm-redis-adapter
Mar 2009 - Dec 2014
Contributions:127 commits, 3 comments in 5 years 10 months
redisdatamapperadapter
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