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About Me

I'm currently employed at Skyhigh Networks as an infrastructure software engineer, and have worked for a wide varity of companies ranging from very small (3 people) to massive corporations such as Microsoft. I have a strong interest in security systems, software automation, cryptography, and the intersection of technology and politics. I somewhat religiously follow tech/security news and CVE accouncements.

Contact Details

Daniel Swann
San Francisco, CA
 danielswann5@gmail.com
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Education

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

Concurrent B.S./M.S.E. in Computer Science• Classes of 2015 and 2016

  • • Concentration on Systems and Security
  • • Entrepreneurship/Management minor
  • • Dean’s List Fall 2012 and 2013
  • • Relevant Coursework: Operating Systems, Practical Cryptography w/ Matthew Green, Networks and Network Security, Scalable Computing, Parallel Programming, Advanced Data Structures, CS Entrepreneurship, Algorithmic Game Theory

Experience

Skyhigh Networks

Campbell, CA

Infrastructure Software Engineer• Engineering Tools Team• August 2016 - present

  • • Design, develop, and audit Python-based internal tools, prioritizing automation and HTTPS microservices
  • • Administer and secure all Linux-based hosts of these tools, including TLS/proxy configuration and ACLs
  • • Participate in on-call rotation to triage emergency service incidents in production environments
  • • Maintain a forked open-source deployment tool in Java, Glu, to improve network security

Independent Engineering Consultant

Baltimore, MD
August 2015 – July 2016

While concurrently studying for my M.S.E, I worked with three Baltimore-based tech startups:

  • • For FitMango’s SaaS platform, I built and secured an AWS VPC and NodeJS deployment pipeline from the ground up
  • • At SocialToaster, I was responsible for cutting down the software release cycle from monthly to weekly by developing an automated production push procedure using Chef, Jenkins, and Python
  • • For RoadMap LLC, I used Ruby, Ansible, and the Rackspace API to automate Ubuntu configuration management

Skyhigh Networks

Campbell, CA

Software Engineering Intern• Engineering Tools Team• June - August 2015

  • • Implemented continuous integration deployment strategies to hundreds of production servers via a combination of Python development and Jenkins automation

Microsoft, Inc.

Redmond, WA

Software Engineering Intern• Microsoft Office File I/O Team• May - August 2014

  • • Designed and implemented a Javascript/C#-based web dashboard to provide in-depth analytics about MS Office file open/save telemetry; including performance, usage, and error data aggregation

Qualcomm, Inc.

Raleigh, NC

Software Engineering Intern• CPUT Infrastructure Team• June - August 2013

  • • Developed, documented, and unit tested Perl command-line tools to benchmark and support verification of the next generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile processors

Skills

Proficiency

  • Debian-based Systems Adminstration
  • Bash
  • HTML/CSS
  • Python 2.7
  • Java 7
  • C and C++ standard libraries

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  • Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

    Aldous Huxley
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