Dan Slimmon
Founder at D2E
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolDan Slimmon is an SRE-focused founder and fractional DBA with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient infrastructure for customer-facing services. He has led incident response hundreds of times, teaching scientific techniques to resolve outages rapidly and coaching teams to reduce time-to-recovery. His background spans platform and automation roles at HashiCorp, Etsy, and Exosite, and he currently runs D2E to deliver pragmatic reliability solutions. Comfortable in both startup and large-product environments, he pairs a Physics/Math BA from Wesleyan with a data-driven approach to troubleshooting and runbooks. Known for down-to-earth technical consulting, he blends deep operational experience with a knack for translating complex system behavior into clear, repeatable practices.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Physics, Mathematics, B.A., Physics, Mathematics at Wesleyan University
French, English
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Github Skills (133)
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infrastructure10
elasticsearch10
remote-execution10
monitoring10
middleware10
infrastructure-management10
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data-visualization10
json10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
exosite/chube
Jun 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:100 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
object-orientedapilinodelinode-api
danslimmon/website
Mar 2019 - Feb 2023
my dumb website
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years
dumb
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