Danny Browning
VP Of Engineering at FifthWall Solutions
Hudson, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Browning is a VP of Engineering with 14 years of experience building and rescuing large-scale, real-time data systems, now based in Hudson, Colorado. He specializes in high-performance backend engineering using Rust and Scala, with deep experience in streaming, packet processing, and observability pipelines. His work spans startup product leadership and enterprise security platforms—moving between hands-on development and shaping workflows so engineering teams spend less time firefighting. An active contributor to the vectordotdev/vector observability project, he focuses on data ingestion, transformation, and performance improvements while maintaining strong code quality. Danny’s background in computational biology and physics-driven simulation informs a methodical, measurement-driven approach to system design. He combines pragmatic product sensibility with low-level systems craftsmanship to deliver reliable data infrastructure at scale.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Biology, Computational Biology at University of Idaho
Github Skills (16)
stream-processing10
rust10
observability10
pipeline9
event-emitter9
event-sourcing9
eventing9
eventsource9
parser8
parserator8
forward-proxy7
forwarding7
logfile6
metric5
router4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vectordotdev/vector
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Danny primarily contributed to the backend of the "vector" observability data pipeline project. Their work included implementing new merge strategies and making performance improvements to the reduce transform feature, indicating a focus on data processing logic. They also addressed issues related to enrichment tables and AMQP source/sink, suggesting contributions to data ingestion and transformation components. Furthermore, the user fixed clippy warnings and formatting, demonstrating a commitment to code quality.
stream-processingeventspipelinerustdata-observability
protectwise/net-parser-rs
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Rust network packet parser
Contributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 10 months
rustpacketpacket-parserparser
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