Danny Hermes

Danny leads infrastructure and security efforts at Hardfin. He cut his teeth early in his career at Google, working on developer experiences for Google Cloud Platform. As a Staff Engineer at Blend, a leading fintech company automating mortgage finance, he focused on scaling the infrastructure as Blend grew rapidly in the years leading up to IPO. He deeply values high quality communication in software engineering. He grew up a farm kid in northwest Illinois and holds a PhD in Mathematics from UC Berkeley.

The missing type in the Go standard library: Date!

Introducing the go-date package. Filling in the gap left by the Go standard library.

February 29, 2024 • 5 min read

Managing Tailscale subnet routers with Terraform

Releasing a Terraform module for deploying a Tailscale subnet router with AWS ECS Fargate and managing the resources via Terraform.

August 4, 2022 • 4 min read

What npm Can Learn from Go

An experiment in Node.js packaging. Enabling airplane mode and improving supply chain security.

May 26, 2022 • 6 min read

Emulating RDS Permissions with Terraform

Keeping local development in lock-step with RDS. Avoiding costly mistakes like locking out the RDS master user.

April 4, 2022 • 5 min read

Introducing the Hardfin Engineering Blog

We'll be sharing posts about our development practices, systems, software stack, infrastructure and security.

February 28, 2022 • 2 min read