Dan Olaru

Virginia, United States

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Dan Olaru is a technology leader with 13 years of experience designing secure, high-performance, and cost-optimized systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP, combining deep DevSecOps expertise with strong client-facing and management skills. He excels at driving transformation in fast-paced environments, applying agile practices and calculated risk-taking to deliver measurable, high-impact results. Skilled in cloud computing, containerization/virtualization, security, operations, and applied machine learning, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic, creative thinking. Dan has contributed to open-source front-end work on the Data.gov theme, merging repos and integrating plugins to improve UX and subscription features—evidence of his practical full-stack instincts. A Johns Hopkins MS and Towson CIS graduate with top grades, he’s known for building strong stakeholder relationships while seeking unconventional solutions that redefine the status quo.

13 years of coding experience

Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems, 3.8, Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems, 3.8 at Towson University

Master's degree, Information Systems Engineering, 3.7, Master's degree, Information Systems Engineering, 3.7 at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

English, Turkish, Romanian, Russian

Github Skills (7)

javascript10

jquery10

wordpress8

e-government7

open-data6

css4

Programming languages (7)

HCLShellJavaScriptGoPHPXSLTPython

Github contributions (5)

GSA/datagov-wptheme

Nov 2013 - Oct 2017

Data.gov WordPress Theme (obsolete)

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:88 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years

Contributions summary:Dan implemented a new feature merging the "next.data.gov" repo and the "GSA/datagov-design" repo, this merged Isotope, a jQuery plugin, with code differences. The user also fixed an issue by modifying a WordPress template file. The user further integrated a new plugin for managing subscriptions and modified custom plugin code.

govdata-managementtrackerwordpressdata-gov

GSA/twitter-posts-to-blog

May 2014 - Jun 2015

Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month

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