Danne Huffaker vitae

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 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.

Developed and maintained a web-based enterprise customer communications application. Performed cryptographic implementation reviews and fixes. Maintained security posture and scalability of the application. Built front-end and infrastructure features to improve product marketability.

Leading builds in software, systems, devops, network, and mobile engineering disciplines. Prototyped algorithms for computer vision, augmented reality, ranking, and categorization systems. Led improvements of one publicly-traded company's Rails ecommerce web application performance by 1,108 percent, and another's PHP ecommerce application by 408 percent. Optimized queries, data transform procedures, and Linux kernel TCP/IP stack parameters. Architected, built, and maintained load-balanced, scalable IP network and relational data processing systems. Led research and development efforts to prototype bluetooth integrations and heads-up display software. Developed, deployed, and code reviewed web and mobile front-end builds.

Built an engineering team regionally renowned for amazing digital products. Helped grow the firm from 6 people to being on the INC 5000 fastest privately-owned companies list and the Portland Business Journal's fastest growing companies list—three years in a row. Directed and hosted bi-weekly tech talks on cutting-edge languages, databases, and programming techniques. Negotiated on-call procedure respectful of both customer needs and work/life balance. Wrote and edited coding standards, functional specifications, systems and software architecture documentation, and engineering procedures. Mentored senior and junior engineers in agile, secure, scalable, test-driven development practices through pair programming and daily code commits. Served as-needed as interim project manager.

Retrofitted all legacy systems with monitoring and capacity planning tools. Automated testing, deploy, and rollback procedures. Secured, documented and standardized servers, networks and application clusters. Developed cryptographic model for financial data processing for the state of Oregon. Led discovery and documentation efforts for customers' legacy network systems. Ran monthly penetration tests against a local credit union's systems. Authored and delivered vulnerability reports. Measurably improved capacity, availability, and performance of all legacy systems. Developed, deployed, and maintained rails and node web applications for numerous local businesses.

Designed, developed, documented, and managed a full stack perl CGI web applications. Implemented scalable capacity modeling and failure control systems, fully automated build, test, and deployment operations, overhauled unit and functional test systems, and optimized databases. Integrated Amazon S3 and SMS messaging support. Maintained internal network and development systems. Added mapping support to iPhone application. Developed company coding style and best practice guidelines.

Adapted and maintained web-based, data-driven failure analysis and corrective action system. Performed information assurance and security certification for RF and network systems. Secured and deployed counter-IED cellphone jammers systems. Designed and prototyped software, firmware, and hardware for embedded cryptographic and language processing devices. Wrote and adapted Linux kernel cryptographic modules. Designed user experience (UX) and mathematical models for ground and aircraft navigation systems. Led international engineering effort to design, develop, and deploy a nation's grid network testing infrastructure. Trained software interns in agile methodologies and secure development practices. Performed statistical analysis and mathematical airflow modeling for rotorcraft systems. Debugged network protocol stack implementations. Authored, designed, reviewed, and edited specifications, manuals, software documentation, and marketing materials.

Designed, developed, deployed, and administered turnkey software and systems for internet service provisioning, support ticket management, billing automation, deployment automation, and customer relationship management. Maintained fault-tolerant mail, DNS, authentication, directory services, database, and support ticket systems. Provided third-tier tech support to customers as needed. Re-cabled two dozen racks of hardware according to IEEE 802.3 specifications. Authored documentation and test procedures.

Developed telecommunications interface and control systems. Managed medium-scale network platform migration from Novell to GNU/Linux. Managed T1 voice and data circuits. Designed, deployed and administered email, web, backup, data warehousing, billing, and quality assurance systems. Maintained hybrid TCP/IP and IPX/SPX network.

Diagnosed and repaired desktops, servers, laptops, displays, and printers. Became the youngest on record to earn full certifications in IBM hardware repair. Became certified in Microsoft and Novell operating systems, and Samsung phone system configuration. Built company reputation as regional subject matter expert for Apple hardware and software. Designed and integrated 400-node hybrid TCP/IP and IPX/SPX metropolitan-area fiber and copper network for a local school district.

Designed, developed, and maintained cryptographically secure and scalable software and systems to process email traffic.

Developed and maintained software to secure customer AWS clusters through automated security scans of compute, load balancer, and configuration management systems. Kept vulnerability scanners up to date with leading threats. Build and led a distributed data science team.

Designed cryptographic infrastructure for rotorcraft real-time embedded data storage and retrieval device. This was the first dedicated, commercial flight safety data recorders for military helicopters.

Prototyped software in interdisciplinary research lab. Coordinated global network of developers and designers to produce full-stack Ruby on Rails applications. Developed user experience and interface models. Automated configuration management and deployment processes.

Designed, developed, and deployed neural network-driven weather, demographics, and airfare tracking, categorization, and prediction model.

Designed, deployed, and maintained fault-tolerant DNS, web, authentication, mail, database, and provisioning systems for an internet service provider. Developed and deployed wide and metropolitan-area wireless network and support systems. Maintained VOIP infrastructure on Cisco and Mikrotik hardware.

Designed and implemented convergent VOIP network on Cisco hardware.

Developed applications to manage human resources and web content. Configured and maintained Cisco routing equipment. Coordinated with multiple offices to maintain WAN across three states.

Developed and tested eigenspatial biometric facial recognition access control system for a security company.

Built three dozen computers from piles of older spare parts for the roofing materials engineering company to sell at discount to its employees. Tuned clients for better network performance.

Entered the technical workforce at age 13. Built computers from spare parts and improved reliability of network connections for local doctor's offices.