Daniel Flynn is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 8 years of experience building scalable geospatial data infrastructure and backend systems, currently leading full-stack and event-driven projects at Planet. He specializes in Go, Python, Beam/Airflow, IAM and fine-grained authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC), pairing deep engineering with practical security controls. Daniel has moved up through multiple engineering roles at Planet and previously built global real-time backends with Java and Cassandra at PROS, demonstrating reliability at scale. His background in music education and time as a band director informs a collaborative leadership style and attention to orchestration and timing in complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Music Education, Bachelor's degree, Music Education at Indiana University Bloomington
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Oregon State University
A CRUD app for organizations that need to work from home
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Daniel Flynn - Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Planet