Daniel Lindsley
Senior Software Developer at Six Feet Up, Inc.
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Lindsley is a senior software developer with 18 years of experience building backend-heavy, production-grade systems and developer tools from startups to AWS. He specializes in Python and Django ecosystems, shipping infrastructure and API work (notably contributions to prominent OSS projects like boto/botocore, django-tastypie, and the AWS CLI) while also improving DX via packaging, documentation, and CI/CD. His career blends hands-on engineering—migrating monoliths to service-based architectures and rebuilding developer environments—with mentorship and substantial code review activity. Comfortable across DevOps, data/search clients (Elasticsearch, Solr) and cloud services, he’s delivered both scientific mapping platforms and large-scale remediation projects. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he keeps a playful, creative edge—making music and curating animated gifs—while tackling serious technical debt and systems design.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree BBA MIS, Bachelor's degree BBA MIS at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Github Skills (49)
apim10
api-rest10
json10
lib10
github10
python10
cloudtrail10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
setuptools10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
riak10
packaging10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
django-tastypie/django-tastypie
Mar 2010 - Oct 2014
Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer / Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & API Developer / Integration EngineerContributions:546 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on improving the core API functionality of the Tastypie library. Their contributions include enhancements to ModelResource and related resource management, encompassing both core functionality and code organization. They added features like pagination, HTTP method overrides, schema detail, and related field support. They also made improvements to the documentation of the resources and fields in the library.
django-appsapipythondjango-rest-frameworkdjango
toastdriven/restless
Jan 2014 - May 2017
A lightweight REST miniframework for Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to enhancing the core functionality of the REST miniframework, `restless`. Their work involved fixing serialization issues with complex data types, implementing support for Django and Flask, and adding security features like authentication. They refactored serialization logic, improved error handling, and added convenience methods for URL hooking, making the framework more robust and easier to use within various web frameworks.
apipythonminiframeworkdjangoflask
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