Danny Rucker
Director Of Software Engineering at Magnesium Technology Group
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Rucker is a Director of Software Engineering with 11+ years of hands-on Java expertise and a proven track record leading teams in financial and insurance services. He combines deep JavaEE/Quarkus and messaging experience (TomEE, ActiveMQ, JMS) with pragmatic architecture and delivery oversight, bridging business needs and engineering realities. A people-first leader, he runs regular 1:1s, mentors junior engineers, and shapes department expectations so teams can own timelines and grow technically. Danny pairs practical DevOps and cloud experience (AWS, DigitalOcean, GitLab CI) with occasional front-end work (VueJS, JSF), demonstrating full-stack fluency. He’s driven by common sense over novelty—evaluating technologies for business fit rather than the sake of novelty—and still enjoys tinkering with projects on GitHub. Based in Kansas City, he balances strategic direction with ongoing coding involvement to keep solutions grounded in reality.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Kansas State UniversityBishop Carroll
Github Skills (39)
java10
search-engine9
constructor-injection9
restful9
elasticsearch9
opensearch8
constructor8
testing7
strings7
spring-boot7
mocking7
junit7
spring7
inject7
parser7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
djr4488/camera-notifier
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
djr4488/retrofit2javaee
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
A JavaEE 7 annotation driven Retrofit2 project
Contributions:4 PRs, 42 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 10 months
javaretrofit2annotationjavaee
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