Dan Stark
VP Of Engineering at YEET
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Stark is a VP of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, petabyte-scale systems and leading teams through rapid growth and complex technical challenges. He specializes in AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform CDK/CloudFormation and serverless architectures, with a strong focus on cost optimization and security. Dan has scaled DevOps and platform engineering at companies from startups to crypto gaming (YEET) and Element 84, translating deep infrastructure expertise into reliable, automated delivery pipelines. He brings a rare combination of technical depth and people skills—rooted in a psychology background—that informs his mentoring, writing, and efforts to help others enter tech. An active open-source and community participant, Dan shares knowledge across Quora, StackOverflow, and GitHub while applying geospatial and data-focused solutions at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology at Temple UniversityMaster of Arts (MA) Counseling Psychology, Master of Arts (MA) Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State UniversityUpper Dublin High School
English
Stackoverflow
806reputation
45kreached
18answers
12questions
Github Skills (90)
secrets9
vault9
lambda9
api9
android-apps9
ruby9
security9
automation9
aws-serverless9
stac9
encryption9
serverless9
ios9
aws9
meilisearch9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stark525/itbestprac-pres
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
stark525/danstarkdevops-gatsby
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Personal Website built with GatsbyJS
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 3 years
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