Dan Herrera
Senior Software Engineer at Lambda
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDan Herrera is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, specializing in Kubernetes, bare-metal provisioning, and developer tooling. He has driven production-grade automation at companies like DigitalOcean and Determined AI (now part of HPE), and currently focuses on PaaS and platform engineering at Lambda. Comfortable across Go, Python, Ansible, and CI/CD systems, Dan builds reliable onboarding and deployment automation and has migrated legacy systems to modern K8s-native architectures. He also contributes to open-source firmware for custom keyboards, showing a hands-on interest in embedded systems and ergonomics beyond his cloud practice. Based in Raleigh and seeking remote roles, he blends systems-level rigor with a curiosity for developer experience and process improvement.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Florida International University
Spanish, Japanese, French, English
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Github Skills (18)
keyboard-input10
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
qmk10
c-programming10
c1110
keyboard10
c1710
keyboard-layout10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
keyboard-hooks10
atmel9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jun 2018 - Nov 2020
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributes to keyboard firmware development, specializing in custom keymap layouts and functionalities. They implement new layouts, such as the DCompact layout, and integrate features like Plover and game mode layers. Code changes involve modifications to keymap.c files, rules.mk, and adjustments for different keyboard models, demonstrating proficiency in QMK firmware and keyboard customization.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
loksonarius/nachos-project
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
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