Dane Hammer
Staff Software Engineer at General Motors
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolDane Hammer is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating distributed systems, platform services, and developer tooling across companies from Cerner to Udacity and now General Motors. He blends hands-on engineering in Go, Java, and cloud-native stacks with platform and DevOps leadership—owning microservices, container orchestration, CI/CD, and secure deployment pipelines. Known for thoroughness and continuous self-improvement, he applies the same meticulous approach to code and infrastructure that he does to personal projects like learning Chinese characters or optimizing cardio training. Based in Kansas City, he has driven architecture and operational improvements at both enterprise and startup scales, and excels at turning complex distributed problems into reliable, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Drake University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (161)
ruby-build10
hubot10
javascript10
django10
localization10
translation10
mozilla10
sql9
golang9
database9
rake9
recipe9
robot9
mysql9
storm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
codesplicer/chef-sinatra_app
Mar 2015 - Dec 2017
Really simple chef cookbook to boostrap an ubuntu server and deploy a sinatra app from another git repo
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 10 months
ubuntu-servercookbooksinatrarecipegit-repo
danehammer/danehammer.github.io
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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