Dan O'Reilly
Principal Software Engineer at DorkForce LLC
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorDan O'Reilly is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience blending visual design sensibilities and pragmatic software development, currently leading front-end architecture at Dell where he's helped evolve a mission-critical AngularJS SPA used by thousands of sales reps. He began as an art director and game/mod developer, which informs his envelope-pushing, highly visual approach to UX and front-end problems. As founder of DorkForce LLC he ships indie apps and a children’s book, demonstrating product instincts and end-to-end delivery beyond engineering. His open-source work includes test and compatibility contributions to high-profile projects like Tornado and Google’s protobufs, improving robustness in async I/O and Python 3 support. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he combines long-form project stewardship with hands-on coding, often resurfacing subtle bugs through disciplined test automation. Colleagues rely on him to bridge design-driven ideas and scalable back-end realities.
18 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (60)
asynchronous10
unit-testing10
google-api10
python10
multithreading10
python-asyncio10
async10
testing10
locking10
tornado10
python-multithreading10
python-multiprocessing10
data-serialization10
celery10
serialization10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
protocolbuffers/protobuf
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 36 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on fixing various test failures and Python 3 compatibility issues within the protobuf project. Their contributions involved modifying Python code, including the `text_format`, `message_test`, and `reflection_test` modules, to address bugs and ensure proper functionality across Python 2 and 3 environments. Additionally, the user resolved issues related to long/int handling and made adjustments to the build process and dependencies. The commits highlight the user's efforts in maintaining and improving the project's Python implementation.
protocol-buffersrpcgoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatmarshalling
tornadoweb/tornado
May 2014 - May 2014
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on adding and improving tests for the Tornado web framework's HTTP client, specifically the `curl_httpclient`. They implemented tests for custom reason codes, digest authentication, and failure scenarios, ensuring the framework's robustness. The user also updated the documentation and refactored the code to use `parse_response_start_line`, contributing to code quality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to asynchronous I/O operations within the framework.
pythonaiohttptornadoasyncwebclient
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