Dan Ports
Owner at CodeWithin
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDan Ports is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with 17 years of experience building full-stack systems, leading engineering teams, and founding product-focused companies. As Co-Founder and Managing Director of CardCenter and founder of CodeWithin, he blends hands-on development (web, Android, Chrome extensions, APIs) with operational leadership that drove a 50% sales uplift through automation. He champions agile and Test Driven Development practices, having built high-quality, highly available services (13k+ monthly users with 99.97% uptime) and large test suites at scale. An active open-source contributor, Dan has enhanced key cloud and infra projects—adding AWS RDS restore and autoscaler features to Crossplane, Renovate, and kOps—demonstrating deep cloud-native and DevOps expertise. Based in Beacon, NY, he pairs math/CS rigor from Stony Brook with a track record of turning complex operational requirements into practical, production-ready solutions.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github contributions (5)
renovatebot/renovate
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the Renovate bot's preset configurations, adding support for new monorepos such as `sentry-dotnet`, `wcf`, and `quartznet`. They also worked on the `flux` package manager, enabling Renovate to manage HelmRelease manifests. Further contributions included fixing an AMI versioning issue and adding a new AWS RDS data source, improving Renovate's ability to manage dependencies.
dependenciesdependencies-checkingbitbucketgitlabupdate
kubernetes/kops
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to enhancing the Kubernetes Operations (kOps) project, focusing on the Cluster Autoscaler component. Their work involved implementing new features for the autoscaler, such as supporting price and priority expanders, as well as refining documentation and adding cloud provider specific checks. Additionally, the user worked on adding Cognito permissions for AWS Load Balancer Controller. These contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing cluster management and cloud integration.
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