Dayna Blackwell is a software architect, technical author, and the founder of Blackwell Systems. A "builder-first" advocate for developer experience, Dayna has shipped 10 open-source production tools ranging from unified secrets management (vaultmux) to modular development frameworks (blackdot), all maintained with the same rigor as the enterprise systems she architects.

With five years of experience in the high-stakes world of enterprise hospitality—designing APIs that serve millions and data pipelines processing billions of events—Dayna specializes in making complex, "high-consequence" systems accessible. She is the author of the 838-page deep dive You Don't Know JSON and a prolific technical writer with over 225,000 lines of published documentation. Dayna is 3x AWS Certified and a specialist in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, Pulumi) and cloud architecture.