Dan Young
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDan Young is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Portland with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently focused on Cassandra at New Relic. His background spans container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, Marathon, Mesos) and long-running UNIX and networking roles, giving him deep operational judgment across stacks. He’s known for helping peers do amazing work and for translating complex distributed-system challenges into reliable, production-ready solutions. Comfortable both in hands-on ops and mentoring roles, he brings steady incident response experience from academia to enterprise. Outside engineering, he’s an avid cat enthusiast—an unlikely but sincere part of how he builds team rapport.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Elementary Education, BA, Elementary Education at University of Portland
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Github Skills (103)
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oci-image9
podman9
docker9
newrelic9
concurrent9
amazon9
backlog9
stargate9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dougbyrne/linter-puppet-parse
Nov 2016 - Oct 2023
Atom linter plugin for Puppet, using puppet parser validate
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years
linterpuppetatom-linterparseratom
newrelic/dkenv
Dec 2015 - Aug 2019
A docker version switcher
Contributions:25 commits, 12 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 9 months
switcherdocker
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