Dan Larsen
Director of Software Engineering at GoPro, Brand Ambassador at Cabrinha Kitesurfing and Dakine Wind
- Role
- Brand Ambassador at Cabrinha Kiteboarding
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dan Larsen
MY PASSION:Architecting, building and optimizing high performing, scalable, and cost effective solutions to compelling problems in a management role where I can apply my personal, social, business, leadership, and technical skills.MY BACKGROUND:I have founded and sold a Web development company, managed infrastructure and implemented enterprise scale Web and mobile platforms inside a large Fortune 500 company, mentored and advised startups, judged startup pitch competitions, and I architected, built and launched SOLOSHOT\'s cloud platform that enabled people to film themselves in action, share live streams and highlight clips, and deliver over-the-air software and firmware updates to the device. And am now leading the development of GoPro\'s mobile app, and architecting their software ecosystem strategy.MY EXPERTISE: Cloud Technologies:Amazon EC2, S3, CloudFront, Cognito, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Transcoder, Media Converter, API Gateway, RDS, Athena, Redshift, SNS, Route53, VPCVideo Technologies:Live Streaming, Wowza, Akamai, Kaltura, FFMPEG, HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTSP, RTMP, MPEG4, MP4, WebRTC, H.264, H.265, AVC, HEVCApplication platforms: BitBucket, BOX, ChartIO, Confluence, Crashlytics, Dropbox, Exchange, Fabric, Firebase, GIT, Google Analytics/Doc/Sheets, Jira, Localytics, Shopify, SlackWeb Technologies:Akamai, Apache, CDNs, CSS, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, JavaScript, JSON, LAMP, LDAP, Linux, Memcached, MySQL, NGINX, OAuth, PHP, Perl, Python, PostgreSQL, SSL, SSO, TLS, XMLSearch Technologies:AWS Elasticsearch, Attivio, Google Search Appliance, Lucene, SOLR, UltraseekPERSONAL INTERESTS:I thrive on action board sports primarily: kiteboarding, surfing, standup paddle, skate and snowboarding. I workout regularly at the gym and eat well. I\'m proud to represent these companies as a brand ambassador and team rider: Cabrinha Kitesurfing, NP Surf, SPY Optics, GO PUCK chargers, 686 technical apparel, VIRUS performance wear, EVL Nutrition, Auctiv sunscreen, and BLDG Active skin repair.
Experience
Brand Ambassador
Oct 2015 — Present
I represent Cabrinha Kitesurfing in Southern California by providing demo event support, demo equipment, answering customer questions, competing in kiteboarding contests, and spreading stoke and Aloha! Competition Results:1st Place - Masters Freestyle, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA3rd Place - Men\'s Big Air, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA3rd Place - Team Race, Delta Kite Challenge, Pittsburgh CA4th Place - Men\'s Freestyle, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA8th Place - Men\'s Open Race, Maui Kite Fest, Maui HI10th Place - 6hr Kite Derby, Kiteboard 4 Cancer, Hood River OR15th Place - TwinTip Division, RedBull Lighthouse to Leighton, Perth Western Australia2018 Competition Results:1st Place - Team Race, Delta Board Meeting, Pittsburg CA3rd Place - Men\'s Freestyle, Maui Kite Fest, Maui HI3rd Place - Men\'s Big Air, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA3rd Place - Men\'s Freestyle, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA5th Place - Men\'s Freestyle, Delta Board Meeting, Pittsburg CA5th Place - Men\'s Big Air, Delta Board Meeting, Pittsburg CA6th Place - Men\'s Big Air, Maui Kite Fest, Maui HI8th Place - Men\'s Open Race, Maui Kite Fest, Maui HI
Education
Garfield High School
Emphasis on Marine Science and Oceanography
1984 — 1986
UC San Diego
Bachelors, Math, Computer Science, Minor in Economics
1986 — 1991
Skills
- Web Applications
- Mobile Applications
- Start-Ups
- Mobile Devices
- User Experience
- Social Networking
- Social Media
- Android
- Business Development
- Scalability
- Web Video
- User Generated Content
- Action Sports
- Kitesurfing
- Live Video Streaming
- Javascript
- Enterprise Software
- Entrepreneurship
- Content Management
- Business Strategy
- Enterprise Architecture
- Information Architecture
- Architecture
- Social Business
- Web Performance
- Akamai
- Web Analytics
- Start-Up Consulting
- Web Application Security
- Usability
- Digital Video
- Apache
- Web 2.0
- Php
- Enterprise Social Networking
- Wordpress
- Css
- Jive
- Open Source
- Collaboration Solutions
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