Daniel Insley
Director Of Engineering at Event Temple
Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Insley is a Director of Engineering with two decades of hands-on software experience and over a decade in leadership roles, now leading engineering at Event Temple from Courtenay, BC. He blends deep backend integration and information security expertise with a pragmatic, empathetic management style that has scaled teams up to 18 engineers and improved both delivery and developer wellbeing. Technically fluent in Ruby and Elixir, he has built production integrations for high-stakes domains like government cannabis inventory and healthcare EMR systems that supported millions of patient interactions. He pairs process improvement—standardizing development practices, code review, and mentoring—with product-minded architectural guidance to keep technical risk low while accelerating revenue. Known as a disabled advocate and avid cat lover on GitHub, he also brings a background in teaching emerging technologies, reflecting a consistent interest in lifting others’ skills. Colleagues rely on him for calm, practical decisions when complex integrations and security concerns collide.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (52)
newrelic10
ruby9
plug9
apm-agent9
agent9
rack9
parser8
webserver8
multithreading8
markup-language8
server8
procfile7
elixir-programming-language7
phoenix-framework7
documentation-generator7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dinsley/heroku-buildpack-newrelic-cli
Apr 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
InQuicker/docker-elixir-libsodium
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 months
elixirdockerdocker-imagelibsodium
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