Daniel Longest
Director Of Information Technology
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Longest is a pragmatic technology leader with 12+ years of experience driving cloud migrations, architecture, and high-performing engineering organizations for B2B SaaS and enterprise products. As Director of IT at a remote-first company he owned end-to-end technology strategy, budgeting, operations, security, and people development while leading an 18-month Azure data center migration he wrote the business case for. He’s delivered measurable outcomes—raising availability from ~98% to >99.9% while cutting infrastructure spend, halving engineering lead time, and slashing critical defects—by combining platform/SRE investments with DORA-driven engineering practices. A hands-on architect familiar with microservices, event-driven systems, and serverless Azure patterns, he also contributes to open-source .NET tooling focused on test automation and thread-safe randomness. Colleagues rely on him not just for technical judgment but for his ability to translate complex technology into clearer business decisions and to coach managers to lead their teams effectively.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Information Technology, Master's Information Technology at Virginia TechB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Old Dominion University
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Github Skills (14)
net10
unit-testing10
asp-net10
dotnet10
tdd10
csharp10
autofixture10
dotnet-core10
testing10
assert9
assertion9
test-data8
test-generator8
xunit8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AutoFixture/AutoFixture
Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
AutoFixture is an open source library for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests in order to maximize maintainability. Its primary goal is to allow developers to focus on what is being tested rather than how to setup the test scenario, by making it easier to create object graphs containing test data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 19 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on enhancing the `RandomRangedNumberGenerator` within the AutoFixture library. Their contributions involved implementing new features, such as the `RandomRangedNumberCustomization`, and writing unit tests for those new features. Refactoring of the code was also done and the tests were expanded to ensure the thread safety of the number generator.
goalunitmaintainabilitymaximizegraphs
annreardon/annreardon.github.io
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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