Dan Simkus
Platform Engineer
Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Simkus is a Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience modernising web platforms and developer workflows, currently driving containerisation, Terraform and Kubernetes adoption at Car & Classic. He evolved from Senior Full Stack Engineer—where he helped rebuild legacy systems and delivered an ESCROW auction platform—into a role focused on infrastructure and developer experience. Previously he led development at Firestorm Media, managing teams and complex web, IVR and live-streaming systems, which gives him a rare blend of ops, backend and product-facing experience. Based in Blackpool, he favours practical, developer-friendly tooling and has a track record of bringing older codebases into a container-based future. Outside day-to-day work he shares code and ideas publicly (GitHub, Twitter), signalling an open, community-oriented approach to solving platform problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Collegiate High School BlackpoolIT for Professionals Diploma, Information Technology, IT for Professionals Diploma, Information Technology at Blackpool and The Fylde College
English
Github Skills (87)
ansible-galaxy10
laravel10
php10
mailinator9
ansible-role9
npm9
laravel-package9
media-library9
reminder9
tailwind9
eloquent9
laravel-scout9
p88
yarnpkg8
javascript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
danielsimkus/chitchat-node
May 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
danielsimkus/laravel-slack-emoji-transformer
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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