Dan Simon
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDan Simon is a platform and application engineer with 13 years building distributed systems and real-time services for large-scale products at Tumblr, Spotify, and Patreon. He combines deep backend engineering experience with a data-focused lens from senior data engineer roles, delivering reliable metric-driven systems and observability features. An active contributor to the Scala I/O and microservice library Colossus, he added metric namespaces and collectors that improved performance insight across services. Based in New York, he brings pragmatic system design, hands-on implementation, and a track record of turning operational needs into robust platform capabilities.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (23)
microservices-application10
scala10
php10
microservices10
metric10
mysql9
composition9
akka9
performance-monitoring9
timestamp9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
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actor6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tumblr/colossus
Nov 2014 - Sep 2017
I/O and Microservice library for Scala
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 247 commits, 408 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the Colossus I/O and microservice library for Scala, with commits dedicated to new metric features. They implemented `MetricNamespace` and `MetricContext` to expand the metrics system. The user also fixed type checking errors, and added and modified code related to various collectors such as `Rate`, `Histogram` and `Counter` to enhance the collection of performance metrics.
sbt-pluginplayframeworkscalasbtmicroservice
DanSimon/FrameworkBenchmarks
Jun 2015 - Feb 2020
Source code for the framework benchmarking project
Contributions:39 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 8 months
benchmarkbenchmarking-frameworkbenchmarking
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