Dano Gillette

Technical leader experienced in growing engineering teams while scaling applications.

Read My Story about how I started into programming without any training or school or about My Values and Beliefs

Skills and Languages

Leadership

Software Engineering Manager Since 2019
Director of Engineering Since 2021

I have always really enjoyed working with others and productivity has increased in good environments based around cooperation. I have worked in many AGILE environments and used many different work flows. I prefer Jira for project management, but have worked a lot in a Asana and Trello.

Team Coding and Mob programming are two exercises that I practice with my teams.

Scala

Since 2018

Picked up Scala after having a desire to learn more about the Functional programming style. Needed to build a scalable api and read several good things about Scala. I had never worked in Java before, but pretty much every book I had read was in Java. So everything was familiar.


Frameworks
  • Play 2

Javascript

Since 2012

Co-Organizes the Lehi UtahJS Meetup

My first job taught me quick that I needed to master JS. After that I have tried my best to stay on top of the many JS frameworks and updates.


Backend

Frontend Frameworks
  • Vue
  • React
  • Angular
  • Ionic

NPM Packages I've built
  • All packages I have built have been private so far. Hoping to fill this in with some good public ones that I have some ideas for once I get the time.

PHP

PHP was the first language that I used in a professional environment. I started by running a freelance company building and maintaining Wordpress sites for customers. While also building some of my own hobby sites.


Frameworks
  • Laravel
  • Phalcon
  • Zend
  • CakePHP

CRM
  • Wordpress
  • Magento

Personal Projects

Comidery
Find food in your neighborhood quickly!

Buy and sell food from your neighbors. This started out as a project to test macro-service architecture. This project consists of three seperate vue applications with an API backend. All served up on AWS using several services.

Base of OP
The Open Source RPG Maker

A custom builder for tabletops online and allow others to run campaigns. Over 100 tabletop campaigns have been ran through Base of OP.

Open Source Packages

CSV Converter

A PHP package for converting Arrays, Array of Objects and Laravel Collections into CSV in minimal amounts of time.

Qeto Queries

A query builder for models and entities.

Vue Base

Generate a basic vue scaffolding within a project easily with a couple commands. Including Vuex and vue router.

Achievements

Architected out the seperation of a monolithic PHP app and managed the execution of it to completion. Moving to several Macro Services that were NodeJS and Lumen (PHP) apis. With ReactJS and VueJS frontend SPA applications.

Built out an Event Driven patterned architecture using AWS SNS/SQS/Kafka to send events to topics and share data between the different applications.

Took one team of 8 engineers and helped split them into 6 different engineering teams, hiring both managers and engineers. Helping build the company from a start up to an enterprise level system.

Participated in 2 rounds of funding being involved in the technical audits of each.

Built migration scripts for the Organ Donor registries for taking very large and sensitive datasets from one data center to another in an efficient and quick process.

Projects

Here are some of the sites I have worked.

Fashionphile

Fashionphile is an ecommerce site focused on high end used handbags.

DNA Center

DNA Center tested thousands of people around the world, testing their DNA.

Donate Life New York

The New York Organ Donor registry website.

Kansas City Steaks

Kansas city steaks is an ecommerce site based on their delicious barbeque.

Mrs. Fields

Mrs. Fields is home to some of the best cookies and brownies.

Leef

Leef is one of the leading sellers in Mobile Memory.