Eastsound, Washington, United States
My full CV is at http://danne.stayskal.com/ . For a prompt response, please email [email protected]. I check LinkedIn messages once per month. Due to frequent contract work, many of the time spans below overlap.
We build the operating system for cancer care between visits to make cancer survivable in our lifetime.
Invented a new kind of computer that improved aerospace safety and carbon efficiency for NASA. Programmed this "compute mesh" for the US Air Force to create the federal market for digital airworthiness certification. Enabled customers to write programs across everything they have access to without needing to trust any system in the process or move any sensitive data off-network. Designed all system components and led international development. Ran the first known zero-trust and zero-knowledge digital threads for model-based systems engineering.
Designed, prototyped, and handed off the system that securely stores all third party customer data to supported Stripe’s App Store to launch on time, spec, and budget. Found and closed a severe vulnerability in the system that processes all bank account numbers. Technically led bringing all platform services that face customers into conformance with all security, reliability, compliance, availability, latency, and efficiency platform standards. Designed and launched their first authoritative internal knowledge platform. Developed the first deprecation program at Stripe, to bring down operational costs of old tech. Mentored other staff engineers extensively. Held the pager for all maximum-severity incidents across all services at the company. Designed project planning and execution tracking tools to support all teams at Stripe. Represented stripe in calls with vendors and customers.
First woman promoted to IC6 Architect at Oracle Cloud. Designed and performed load tests for Oracle’s public-facing Covid support systems, simulating one-third of the United States logging in per hour. Technically vetted all global research and government grant requests for Covid support that faced all Oracle Cloud resources. Submitted three more patents in quantum cryptography and crypto system architectures. Designed distributed caching service, consulted on design of search indexing, wide-column, and relational storage services. Submitted a systems orchestration patent. Developed Oracle Cloud’s 5G service and product architecture. Represented Oracle in telecom and crypto customer meetings. Technically vetted the majority of service team’s region build automation systems designs. Defined the measurable standard for “everything, everywhere” service deployments. Provided architectural direction and boundaries to compute capacity request board. Held monthly executive women’s working group to level the playing field at Oracle. Reverse-engineered how realms work. Gave presentations on how to be an effective architect, mentoring and role modeling inclusive behavior, and on leveling the playing field for women in technology. Designed region and realm information service. Provided guidance to Engineering Roadmap Assessment program, Developer Central, and the Engineering Community. Wrote Oracle Cloud quantum crypto deck for the office of the CEO. Submitted three more patents in authorization systems for secure data handling. Consulted in the design of a new Oracle Cloud value.
Wrote Oracle Cloud’s standards for user interfaces, cryptography, and sensitive data handling. Federated the monoliths that provided all customer-facing interfaces to all Oracle Cloud services, eliminating use of Clojure, and giving service teams full-stack ownership of their products. Bridged and closed all cross-service systems gaps to create Oracle Cloud’s always-free tier, from concept to production in eight weeks, creating system tags platform in the process. Wrote the standards by which Oracle Cloud measures its standards. Filed patent for secure cross-realm cryptography, allowing Oracle to safely coordinate change across realms. Set technical direction, negotiated standards, and vetted architectures for all customer-facing user and developer interfaces to all Oracle Cloud services. Designed release management validation service. Designed architecture of Rover. Developed guidelines for intent-driven user interface workflows. Designed analytics platform to integrate visibility into Oracle Cloud product surface. Consulted on vendor selection for network air-gap hardware. Developed standards by which OCI measures integration risk and when risk merits executive attention and direction. Presented annual brown bags on strategies for effective engineering across organizational boundaries. Designed integrations of PaaS and SaaS interfaces for all user-facing workflows. Wrote guidelines and exercises for technical mentoring. Presented tech talk summarizing computational meta-ethics research, performed with an NGO volunteered with outside of Oracle, as a delegate to a United Nations human rights forum.
Joined midway through launch of first cloud region. Fixed all known console vulnerabilities, and ten others I found in other services. Programmed the root yubikey, then wrote software that programmed all the other ones, too. Designed and built the identity provider that safeguards all Oracle Cloud production resources. Wrote console’s operations, UX review, and release management processes. Wrote what became Oracle Cloud’s architecture document template. Built cross-tenancy functionality and interfaces to the operator access tenancy. Designed and prototyped Graphql aggregation service. Added approval workflows and interfaces to permissions systems. Consulted extensively to national security teams on US government cryptographic standards and practices. Rearchitected and maintained the authentication and authorization libraries gating all internal and external user interfaces at Oracle Cloud. Hosted monthly crypto lunches to keep us all in sync. Designed phonebook and service registry. Developed sprint planning statistical models for teams in console, permissions, and identity. Wrote guidelines for effective emotional communication. Mentored extensively across most cloud organizations. Developed account recovery and multi-factor authentication designs and implementations for Identity. Closed remaining vision and hearing-impaired accessibility gaps on public-facing user interfaces.