Dan Wanek
VP Of Web Development at Waymark
Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDan Wanek is a veteran technical leader with over 25 years in infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering who currently serves as VP of Web Development at Waymark. He has repeatedly led AWS modernizations and PaaS builds—most recently designing a Nomad/Consul/Vault-based platform and migrating infrastructure into Terraform-controlled organizations—to accelerate developer velocity from concept to deployment. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and strategic architecture, Dan has delivered observability, autoscaling, and IaC solutions at scale while growing high-performing DevOps teams. His open-source contributions to Ruby projects like restforce show a pragmatic focus on compatibility and reliability for real-world integrations. Based in the mountains of North Carolina, he pairs a rural-born practicality with a love of outdoor problem solving, which informs his preference for automation and elegant operational design.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at DePaul University
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Github Skills (12)
middleware10
faraday10
ruby10
testing9
scheduling6
exchange-web-services6
ember-data6
outlook6
linux6
exchange-server6
rubygems6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
restforce/restforce
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
A Ruby client for the Salesforce REST API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the `restforce/restforce` repository by addressing issues related to the underlying REST API client for Salesforce. Their work included refactoring the Mashify middleware to utilize callbacks, improving the proxy test suite to support newer Faraday versions, and fixing tests to correctly use Faraday callbacks. The user also made significant contributions to improve the multipart functionality for file uploads. These changes enhance the client's compatibility and reliability with the Salesforce API and related dependencies.
apiruby-clientrubysalesforce-rest-apisalesforce
WinRb/Viewpoint
Oct 2009 - Feb 2021
A Ruby client access library for Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS)
Contributions:494 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 years 6 months
exchangemicrosoft-exchangeruby-clientrubyweb-services
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