Dan Porter
Senior Software Engineer at Koan
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorDan Porter is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building maintainable, reader-focused web applications and scalable architectures from startups to mission-driven nonprofits. Currently at Koan, he has a track record of leading teams to capture core business logic into well-tested libraries, modernize legacy stacks with GraphQL and React, and pioneer CI/CD practices that boost delivery reliability. He combines deep hands-on engineering—spanning backend systems, Linux ops, and distributed/blockchain prototypes—with a natural talent for simplifying complex problems and mentoring teammates. An autodidact and strategic thinker, Dan often converts obstacles into opportunities, for example creating bank-integrated services that saved his organization six-figure transfer fees. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he brings practical architectural judgment and a persistent drive to learn and improve code, process, and team outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (36)
infrastructure9
chef-infra8
scale8
automation8
devops8
heroku7
ansible7
buildpack7
vimeo-api6
kubernetes6
ruby5
rspec5
django5
rails4
graphite4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
restful-labs/restful_metrics-ruby
Nov 2010 - Mar 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 5 pushes in 4 years 4 months
restfulruby-clientrubyrestmetrics
wolfpakz/heroku_backup
Sep 2010 - Apr 2014
Contributions:23 commits in 3 years 6 months
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