Dan Simmons
Founding Engineer at pods.media
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Simmons is a founding engineer and full‑stack systems architect with 14 years building high-throughput, distributed systems for startups and finance. He designs and ships scalable streaming ETL, microservices, and ML-powered pipelines using a polyglot toolset (Golang, Clojure, Python, Scala) and infrastructure like Kafka, Cassandra, Kubernetes, and Spark. As Wingman CTO he led product strategy from 300+ customer interviews and built a crawler indexing 500M+ profiles plus a DAG-based image/ML processing pipeline with human-in-the-loop correction. He’s consulted on automated trading systems, integrating execution APIs and quant workflows, and holds security certifications (CEH, Security+) that inform his operational rigor. Based in Boulder, he combines hands‑on engineering with product sensibility and an active interest in open source, systems performance, and quantitative finance. An endurance-minded technologist, he balances engineering with fitness and investing hobbies that reflect a data-driven, disciplined approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science Finance, Bachelor's Computer Science Finance at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (96)
backup10
encryption10
api10
wayland10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
redux10
react10
linux9
chromium9
app-framework9
cli9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dsimmons/blog
May 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 22 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 3 months
dsimmons/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:128 commits, 12 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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