Dan Walker
Software Engineer 2 at Fortra
Battle Ground, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Walker is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of engineering experience and two decades in technical support, currently advancing product development at Fortra. He excels at troubleshooting complex Windows, Linux, and macOS issues under pressure and has moved from frontline support to leading escalations and shipping productivity tools that modernized legacy workflows. At Fortra he built utilities that harvest and unify Jira data and rewrote aging tools in Python, demonstrating a knack for turning support insights into engineering improvements. Based in Battle Ground, WA, he balances hands-on coding with mentoring and incident leadership, and outside work he’s a husband, father, and avid Ingress agent—bringing curiosity and persistence to both problems and play.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hudson's Bay High School
English, geek
Github Skills (51)
picture-in-picture10
media10
command-line10
minecraft9
jdownloader9
youtube9
streaming9
youtube-dl8
gradle7
google-map7
k8s7
yt-dlp7
command-line-tool6
python6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
merval/BackupScripts
Nov 2015 - Nov 2021
Homedir Bash Backup Scripts | Written and/or Modified by Dan Walker
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 1 month
bash
merval/PyEncoder
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
Automated encoding of videos in a directory.
Contributions:3 releases, 24 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 1 month
videosencodingdirectoryvideoffmpeg
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