Dan Wendorf
Software Engineer at Render
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Wendorf is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating backend systems and CI/CD tooling from San Francisco. He has driven infrastructure and reliability work at companies including Render, Opendoor, and Pivotal Labs, and has hands-on DevOps experience improving acceptance tests, manifests, and deployment pipelines for Cloud Foundry releases. An active open-source contributor, Dan has made impactful backend contributions to widely used projects such as Homebrew Bundle and Cloud Foundry, focused on dependency management, build processes, and robust API and logging behavior. Equally comfortable in Ruby and shell tooling, he improves developer workflows (e.g., bash-it direnv and git integrations) while also tackling production-scale issues like database handling and monitoring configuration. Colleagues rely on him to translate flaky test and deployment pain points into repeatable automation and clearer observability.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (37)
git10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
rspec10
bash10
alias10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
homebrew10
automation10
script10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
May 2015 - Apr 2017
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:157 commits, 8 PRs, 154 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan made several commits related to improving the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller. Their work includes modifying API documentation, merging remote-tracking branches, adding validations, and fixing New Relic configurations. The contributions also focused on ensuring correct handling of database connections and the addition of more specific event logging and other minor code changes. The code touches on multiple areas, including modifying core code files, and updating configuration files for cloud controller's use.
cloud-foundrycloudfoundryruby
Bash-it/bash-it
Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the `bash-it/bash-it` project by enhancing the git integration within the shell environment. They added a `direnv` plugin, which improves the shell's ability to load environment variables. Additionally, the user refactored git functionality into a dedicated theme file, added a git alias, and addressed character encoding issues, improving the overall user experience. These changes focus on improving the developer's workflow and customization options within the bash-it framework.
bashshellterminalthemesproductivity
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