Daniel Grigsby
Staff Software Engineer at Yelp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Grigsby is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience specializing in continuous integration, delivery, and platform engineering at Yelp. He leads Unified Developer Experiences, driving developer productivity and platform reliability while shipping deployment and release automation improvements across large-scale services. Daniel pairs hands-on backend and DevOps work—contributing to notable open-source tooling like Yelp’s paasta—with a teaching background that sharpens his code review and mentoring skills. Early entrepreneurship and internship projects show a long-standing focus on practical tooling and automation, and he’s known for turning complex deployment workflows into predictable, developer-friendly processes.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (13)
automation10
automations10
automation-testing10
devops10
paas10
python10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
cli9
docker9
kubernetes9
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 25 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's primary focus was on enhancing the `paasta` platform, particularly around deployment processes and author notification. Key contributions include adding functionality to include additional authors for deployment notifications, modifying the build and release process, and updating the service's default location. They implemented changes to streamline deployments within the Yelp ecosystem, moving toward GitHub for service configurations and updating versioning.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
dbgrigsby/pictures
Nov 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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