Don Eisele
Senior Platform Engineer
Manhattan, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolDon Eisele is a Senior Platform Engineer with 12 years of formal experience and a multi-decade background in systems engineering, currently split between Kansas State University leadership roles and platform work at Purple Wave Auction. He designs and operates resilient cloud and SRE systems, progressing from UNIX/Solaris administration into team leadership and architecture for university-scale services. Don combines hands-on full-stack development—evidenced by UI and TypeScript improvements to a self-hosted 3D asset manager—with deep operational discipline around maintainability and tagging/metadata workflows. He also brings entrepreneurial and maker instincts as CEO of small ventures and a longtime woodworker, which inform pragmatic product-focused engineering decisions. Based in Manhattan, Kansas, he balances technical leadership with community teaching as a chief aikido instructor, a detail that highlights his mentorship and steady, practiced approach to team development.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Kansas State University
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
front-end-development10
back-end-development9
erb9
typescript9
typescript-types9
backend9
typescripts9
html9
3d-printing8
css7
shell6
linux6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
manyfold3d/manyfold
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 5 commits, 50 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Don focused on enhancing the user interface and adding features to the digital asset manager. They implemented inline editing functionality for model names, improving the user experience. They also made changes to settings and model tagging, adding options to control how model directories are tagged. Additionally, the user fixed TypeScript linting issues, ensuring code quality and maintainability.
asset-managerdigital-asset-managementdigital-assethosteddam
Oracle-of-the-Void/ootv-client
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
Oracle of the Void is a Card Game database and search engine that has collection management, and deck construction capability.
Contributions:187 commits, 2 PRs, 78 pushes in 2 years 2 months
deckcapabilitysearch-engineoraclevoid
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