# Dan Arbaugh

**Senior Technical Curriculum Developer**

- Email: dan@danarbaugh.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/danarbaugh
- Website: https://danarbaugh.com

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## Summary

Software engineer working in technical education. I spent seven years designing and operating O'Reilly Media's multi-cloud Cloud Labs platform, and now build hands-on curriculum and lab environments at Datadog. The deliverable is education. The work is still infrastructure, automation, and systems design.

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## Experience

### Datadog · Senior Technical Curriculum Developer
**June 2026 – Present**

- Develop hands-on labs, courses, and workshops for the Datadog Learning Center in partnership with cloud engineering and product teams.

### O'Reilly Media, Inc. · Senior Software Engineer
**December 2018 – May 2026**

- Designed and built Cloud Labs, a multi-tenant platform provisioning thousands of ephemeral cloud environments per week across GCP, AWS, and Azure, on GKE with Terraform, async Python, Postgres, and Redis.
- Led the platform's GCP capability from planning through implementation, and served as rotating team lead across hiring, technical interviews, and architecture decisions.
- Proposed and shipped the platform's first lab with an embedded coding agent (Aider on AWS Bedrock), putting learners in front of a working LLM agent within seconds of launch.

### Ciholas, Inc. · Software Engineer
**April 2017 – December 2018**

- Built real-time front-end interfaces for an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) network monitoring system with millisecond-latency data visualization.

### OneMain Financial · Senior Programmer Analyst
**September 2014 – April 2017**

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## Education & Certifications

- **B.S. Computer Science**, University of Southern Indiana (2014)
- **Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer**, Issued December 2023, Valid through December 2026