Daniel Nephin

Passionate about software engineering, open source technology, automation, and mentoring.

Open Source

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: yelp/docker-custodian, go-swagger, julian/jsonschema, yelp/tron, tradeschool, yelp/testify, spf13/cobra, yelp/swagger-py, and many others

Talks

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

Docker Inc2015-current

Computer Systems Analyst - Core

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

Football Canada Online Database Project 2006-2007

Software Analyst and Developer

SkilsPlus Training 2000-2004

Contractor: Web Developer

Education

Computer Engineering Technology - Computing Science, 3 year Diploma, Algonquin College, Ottawa, 2007