Daniel Dreier
Principal Platform Engineer
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Dreier is a Principal Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating self-service orchestration platforms that empower engineering teams to move faster and more reliably. Based in Texas, he rose through hands-on operational roles—IOC lead and SSL/load‑balancer maintainer—to senior platform leadership at Q2, blending incident response, automation, and platform architecture. He brings practical full-stack chops from early ASP.NET migrations to backend contributions on team tooling like tinyissue, where he enhanced database flexibility and added Markdown support. Known for turning repetitive operational work into automated tooling, he prioritizes developer experience and measurable reliability improvements.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (7)
php10
database-design10
laravel-mix9
laravel9
markdown-it9
markdown9
model-view-controller8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mikelbring/tinyissue
Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
Simple Issue Tracking for Teams
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the issue tracking system. Their contributions involved modifying database queries, changing time-related functions, and updating the comment formatting. The user integrated Markdown support within the system to allow rich text formatting for comments and also made changes to allow for more database flexibility. Furthermore, the user made changes to the model and views, which indicates a focus on overall application improvement.
mysqlissue-trackingphpphp81tracking
ddreier/reader
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:18 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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