Dan Winter
Senior Software Engineer II at Smartsheet
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Winter is a Senior Software Engineer II with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems across Ruby on Rails, Python, Kubernetes, and GCP. He has driven production data and batch platforms at Etsy and rebuilt services through acquisitions at Smartsheet, blending hands-on engineering with cloud-native operations. Dan’s background includes creating Kafka-based ETL pipelines, deploying containerized microservices, and contributing bug fixes to open-source tooling like Helm, showing a pragmatic approach to infrastructure and observability. Comfortable in polyglot environments, he picks the right language for the problem and has shipped systems in Typescript, Ruby, Clojure, and Lua. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he pairs rigorous technical delivery with a history of mentoring and hiring, having interviewed and helped grow engineering teams. A former brewer and educator, he brings practical troubleshooting skills and a collaborative mindset to complex systems work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Completed 42 Graduate Credits Education, Completed 42 Graduate Credits Education at Lesley UniversityBachelor of Arts Sociology, Bachelor of Arts Sociology at New York UniversityFull Stack Software Development, Full Stack Software Development at Turing School of Software & DesignSemester at Sea, Semester at Sea at University of Virginia
German
Github Skills (19)
charts9
helm9
kubernetes8
js-client7
package-manager7
sketch6
apache-kafka5
nodejs5
producer5
software-design5
javascript4
kafka-consumer4
kafka-producer4
apache4
kafka3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danjwinter/game-time-t-rex
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:37 PRs, 70 pushes, 31 branches in 12 days
danjwinter/stache_yo_self
Feb 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:147 commits, 26 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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