Donald Fanning
Chaos Engineer Software Developer at Disney Experiences
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDonald Fanning is a seasoned Chaos Engineer and Senior SRE with 11+ years building resilient, observable systems for large-scale consumer platforms, most recently shaping production-scale chaos automation and predictive failure analytics for Disney Parks. He blends deep infrastructure pedigree—storage, networking (CCNP), SANs, and virtualization/containerization—with hands-on cloud-native experience in AWS, IaC, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog). Donald is comfortable operating at the intersection of Site Reliability, DevOps, and security, having led migrations, OAuth2 and messaging platform launches (including Disney+) and driven early AI/ML efforts toward self-healing systems. He pairs technical craftsmanship with project and vendor management skills honed across startups, enterprise, government, and field roles (including energy-efficient home construction and aerospace inflight connectivity). Pragmatic and outspoken about fair compensation and remote-first work, he seeks senior SRE/SE roles where complex, human-centered problems and cross-functional collaboration are prioritized.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Alaska Anchorage
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
donfanning/freqtrade
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Simple High Frequency Trading Bot for crypto currencies
Contributions:4 reviews, 12 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 6 months
currenciesbothigh-frequencycrypto-currencieshigh-frequency-trading
donfanning/NETworkManager
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 6 months
networkproblemsnetworking
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