Dan Reif
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at The DR's In
Camas, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Reif is a senior engineering executive with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating massive, cost-efficient infrastructure across startups and hyperscale companies. Currently SVP of Engineering at LotusPetal.AI and simultaneously advising on site reliability and performance at The DR's In (including work at Airbnb), he combines executive leadership with deep technical chops in MySQL, Kubernetes, AWS, and observability. At Lyft and Facebook he led reliability and MySQL infrastructure efforts that delivered tens of millions in recurring savings and trained thousands of engineers, respectively. He has a track record of turning ops expertise into product and business wins—spinning hosting into a white-glove service that closed seven-figure deals and guided compliance for regulated customers. An active tinkerer, he contributes to open-source tooling such as improvements to MySQL tuning-primer.sh, reflecting a focus on practical database performance and operational tooling. Based in Camas, Washington, he blends crisis-driven incident leadership with long-term engineering strategy to make systems more reliable, observable, and cost-effective.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
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Github Skills (16)
sh10
bash10
script10
database-administration10
shell10
mysql10
scripting10
mariadb9
awk7
memory-management6
drupal6
macos6
linux6
vagrant6
freebsd6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
BMDan/tuning-primer.sh
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
MySQL Tuning-Primer.sh, updated and improved
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:4 reviews, 24 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to fixing and improving the `tuning-primer.sh` script, which is designed for MySQL tuning. Their work focused on resolving several bugs related to incorrect paths, argument usage, and query cache messages. Additionally, the user enhanced the script by handling InnoDB status, updating links, and improving the display of query performance metrics. These contributions suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the script's functionality related to MySQL database configuration and monitoring.
primermysqlimprovedperl5percona
BMDan/SSL-Protocol-Checker
Feb 2015 - Oct 2018
Quickly determine which protocols and cipher suites are supported by a destination server
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 8 months
ssldestinationciphersuitessupported
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