Daniel Nephin

Open Source

Core contributor and maintainer:

gotestsum‐ a Go test runner with output optimized for humans
gotest.tools‐ A collection of packages to augment the go testing package and support common patterns.
Consul ‐ connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

Occasional contributor to various open source projects: hashicorp/go-memdb, spf13/cobra, yelp/tron, and many others

Previously a core contributor and maintainer:

Docker ‐ the open-source application container engine
Docker Compose ‐ define and run complex applications using Docker
Gometalinter ‐ run Go lint tools concurrently and normalise their output
Dobi ‐ a build automation tool for Docker applications

Experience

HashiCorp2020-present

Senior Software Engineer - Consul Core Team

created a community pull request review process for reviewing external contributions to the open source project which resulted in significantly increased community engagement and contributions
wrote the HashiCorp Go Language Style Guide
discovered and fixed CVE-2021-37219 a high severity privilege escalation vulnerability that had existed for 5+ years
designed and implemented a major addition to Consul's multi-tenancy features
mentored engineers, both formally as part of a mentoring program, and informally through daily interactions
led a project to improve observability by adding new metrics and logging, and building a path toward distributed application tracing

CircleCI2018-2020

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Execution Team

technical lead for the execution and compute platform
redesigned legacy systems to improve reliability and observability
lead a project to improve autoscaling, savings millions on compute cost over the year
started and lead the effort for writing operational runbooks for on-call processes

Docker Inc2015-2018

Open Source Software Engineer - Core Team

core contributor and maintainer of Docker (Engine)
core contributor and maintainer of Docker Compose

Yelp Inc2011-2015

Software Engineer - Infrastructure

design of service oriented architecture platform
design of automated testing and continuous deployment systems
performance analysis and optimization of web stack
design and analysis of web scraper detection system
large scale data processing using MapReduce on Amazon EMR
and so much more...

Leadership

recruiting: interviews, phone screening, code tests, and résumé screening
mentoring of interns and junior engineers
support developers in debugging production issues, and software design

Yellow Pages Group2010-2011

Telus Consultant: Computer Systems Analyst

re-architecture of legacy systems and web sites
performance analysis, testing, and optimization of web services
technical lead for business reporting systems

Perzoot2010-2011

Co-Founder / Software Engineer / Software Architect

build a web application using Django, JQuery, PostgreSQL, Solr
designed and built multi-threaded web scrapers

Mate1.com Inc2007-2010

Technical Lead (previous roles: Software Engineer and Quality Assurance Specialist)

requirements gathering, analysis, cost estimation and planning of projects
technical advisor to senior management
architecture and design of customer facing email system responsible for large portion of revenue
operations and maintenance of production systems
design and optimization of database layer, including schema design and query performance

Open Source

Experience

HashiCorp2020-present

Senior Software Engineer - Consul Core Team

CircleCI2018-2020

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Execution Team

Docker Inc2015-2018

Open Source Software Engineer - Core Team

Yelp Inc2011-2015

Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Leadership

Yellow Pages Group2010-2011

Telus Consultant: Computer Systems Analyst

Perzoot2010-2011

Co-Founder / Software Engineer / Software Architect

Mate1.com Inc2007-2010

Technical Lead (previous roles: Software Engineer and Quality Assurance Specialist)

Football Canada Online Database Project 2006-2007

Software Analyst and Developer

SkilsPlus Training 2000-2004

Contractor: Web Developer

Education