Summary
Daniel has great communication skills and expansive levels of technical and commercial exposure. Strong sense of purpose through coding, personal development and contributing.
Strengths include holistic problem solving, application of knowledge in the real world, lean startup principles and adaptability. A generalist who has performed the roles of consultant, support, designer, marketing, usability, analyst, tester, profiler, architect, front/back-end developer, system/database admin, recruitment, leadership and project manager. Significant experience with plain language, porting legacy code, legal documents, web services, e-learning and social networks.
Experience
Social currency layer protocol for the web built on the Ethereum blockchain.
- Provisioned services (AWS, Heroku, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, Flywheel, Ghost, Digital Ocean)
- Launched marketing pages (signup, SEO)
- Architected infrastructure (database, API Gateway, Go microservices, gRPC, Docker, Istio, SQS)
- Ethereum blockchain integration
- SDK (APIs, docs, integration test suite)
- Created React frontend
Social network for entrepreneurs -- part Facebook, Eventbrite, LinkedIn, Meetup, Groupon, Messenger and Reddit.
- Rails, Angular, REST, iOS/Swift, AWS, Heroku, Postgres, Node, MongoDB, Salesforce, Stripe, GA, NewRelic, Pusher, Memcachier, Agile/Kanban
- Ported legacy code to fast, lightweight Angular webapp (50% faster, 75% smaller)
- Added chat messenger, machine learning introductions, scalable newsfeed, advanced ticketing
- Exposed set of platform-agnostic APIs
- 70+ screen iOS app
- Recruited and managed a team of 4, presented to company/investors
In-house consultant for a $900 billion bank. Acquired by Cognizant.
- Angular, Agile, BA, QA, TDD, Grunt, Stylus, NPM, WebStorm, Stash, SourceTree, JIRA
- Successful pioneer project
- Hackathon finalist for an AWS VR tool (Oculus Rift, Unreal Engine)
Compliance Learning Management System (LMS) for 100,000+ employees from most Fortune 500 companies. Acquired by News Corp.
- J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Roo, Hibernate, Agile, JUnit, Jasmine, Salesforce, Ruby, Cucumber, REST, OAuth, Postgres, SCORM
- Designed and implemented a new LMS platform
- Built a fast and lightweight embeddable SCORM player, overcoming XSS issues
- Architecture, PM, design/UX, BA, QA, supper, management, leadership
- Recruited and managed a team of 5
Dynamic legal documents online (backed by a major law firm). Expansion into UK market.
- Part-time consulting during a year-long living / travel through Europe.
- Created, configured and deployed a UK version of Cleardocs.
- High-level design and product features for Cleardocs Australia.
Dynamic legal documents online (backed by a major law firm). Acquired by Thomson Reuters.
- JSP/J2EE, JavaScript, MySQL, ASIC API
- Full code rewrite (3 months of straight 16-hour days) and system re-architecture
- Unique approach to generating extremely large (up to 100Mb), complex forms
- 80% speed increase, 99% less memory, 75% database reduction
- Worked with government, law firms and consultancies
- Recruited and managed a team of 3