Dan Metzler

Dan Metzler has over 7 years of experience in software engineering. Dan has worked in various roles at different companies, including Bluestem Brands, Best Buy, Cargill, UnitedHealth Group, Sun Country Airlines, Securian Financial, Daugherty Business Solutions, PreciouStatus, and Blackbaud.

At Bluestem Brands, Dan is currently working as a Lead Software Engineer, leading an offshore team in developing a microservice-based messaging system for Oracle Retail integration.

Previously, at Best Buy, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer on the External Marketplace Services team, where they used Java, Spring Boot, groovy, spock, and gradle to work on various integration APIs with external vendors.

Before that, at Cargill, Dan worked as a Senior Software Engineer on a datahub integration project, using Java, Spring Boot, Hadoop, Hive, and PostgreSQL to provide data extraction and loading to target systems.

At UnitedHealth Group, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer on the healthcare API platform, using Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes cluster deployments.

Dan also has experience as a Senior Software Engineer at Sun Country Airlines, Securian Financial, Daugherty Business Solutions, PreciouStatus, and Blackbaud, where they worked on projects involving legacy system modernization, batch job development, and restful API development, among others.

Dan has expertise in various technologies and frameworks, including Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, and DevOps tools like Jenkins and Chef.

Dan Metzler attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1999 to 2003, where they obtained a Bachelor's degree in Biology and Psychology.