Dan Rue
Director Of Cloud Engineering at BlockFi
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Rue is a Director of Cloud Engineering with 15+ years of hands-on DevOps and SRE experience, currently leading cloud strategy and platform reliability at BlockFi. He combines deep systems expertise (Linux/FreeBSD, storage, networking, databases) with practical automation skills in AWS, Python, Docker, Ansible, and CI/CD to streamline development workflows and secure large-scale deployments. His background includes building kernel CI and testing platforms at Linaro and driving AWS-oriented automation patterns at SPS Commerce, showing a knack for cross-team, infrastructure-wide improvements. Known for focusing on the big picture, he balances strategic planning with tooling and process changes that measurably improve developer efficiency and product quality. An engineer at heart, he still codes and architects solutions that bridge legacy infrastructure and modern cloud-native practices.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of North Dakota
Github Skills (119)
python10
testing10
automation10
ssh10
network-configuration10
linux-kernel10
ansible10
quality-assurance10
functional-testing10
bazel-rules10
lava10
linaro10
tla10
linux9
ansible-lint9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
danrue/feather
Oct 2010 - Oct 2016
Tarsnap backup scheduler that uses yaml to define rolling backups
Contributions:3 releases, 32 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 1 month
yaml
Linaro/qa-reports-known-issues
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:60 commits, 75 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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