Dan Richelson
Freelance Software Engineer at Self-employed
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Richelson is a freelance software engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating highly scalable, always-on distributed systems for startups and large enterprises. He has led complex migrations and reliability efforts at LaunchDarkly and Salesforce, with deep hands-on expertise in streaming APIs, observability, CI/CD, and cost-conscious infrastructure design using Go, Java, Kubernetes, CockroachDB, ElasticSearch, and Terraform. Known for full-lifecycle ownership, he balances strong engineering opinions with intellectual flexibility and a pragmatic focus on developer experience and automated testing. Based in Oakland, he’s equally comfortable architecting monolith-to-microservice transitions, designing feature-flag systems, or executing “big scary” infra moves that reduce COGS while improving uptime.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (200)
api-management10
dashboard10
grafana10
guzzle10
security10
consul10
aws-elasticsearch10
istio10
linter10
elasticsearch10
microservices10
runner10
monitoring10
middleware10
client-library10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
drichelson/ReviewNinja-Welcome
Apr 2016 - May 2021
Welcome repo for ReviewNinja to help you get started. Feel free to delete when you're done, we won't take it personally.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
reactget-startedwelcome
drichelson/istio
Feb 2019 - May 2021
An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
securesecure-microservicesopen-platformistiok8s
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