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.

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
PyStaticConfiguration ‐ python configuration library

Frequent contributor to various open source projects spf13/cobra, yelp/docker-custodian, yelp/tron, and many others

Talks

An introduction to gotest.tools ‐ at Go TO Meetup
Developing with Docker ‐ at Toronto Docker Meetup
Fig Demo ‐ at Docker Global Hack Day - SF
PyStaticConfiguration ‐ at edmonton.py
Python web frameworks ‐ at edmonton.py
Profiling python ‐ at edmonton.py
Itertools ‐ at edmonton.py

Experience

CircleCI2018-current

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

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
PHP, Python, Java, Groovy

Perzoot (perzoot.com)2010-2011

Co-Founder / Software Engineer / Software Architect

Perzoot was a job posting aggregator. A web application using Django and JQuery on Apache, multi-threaded web scrapers, PostgreSQL database, and Solr search.

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
Java, Jython, Perl, Actionscript, Mysql