Daniel Durante
Chief Technical Officer at FRST
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarDaniel Durante is a Chief Technical Officer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, databases, and operational tooling from Gainesville, Florida. He pairs hands-on mastery of Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, Go and Rust with deep MySQL and PostgreSQL expertise, focusing on performance tuning and inventory/warehouse data management. An active open-source contributor to the popular Sequelize ecosystem, he has added PostgreSQL features like schema declarations and HSTORE support and fixed compatibility/tests in sequelize-auto to keep the ORM up to date. His background includes building CNC routing/nesting and internal inventory systems, payment integrations and rescuing abandoned infrastructure, giving him practical experience across the stack. He currently directs technical strategy at Genesis Volatility while leading backend development at FRST, translating business KPIs into reliable, metric-driven platforms.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
nodejs, php, golang, c, rust, magento
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Github Skills (19)
sequel10
javascript10
postgresql10
testing10
javascripts10
orm10
database-design10
sequelizejs10
node-js9
databases9
sql9
database9
typescript37
typescript27
typescript7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sequelize/sequelize-auto
Jun 2013 - May 2018
Automatically generate bare sequelize models from your database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:214 commits, 67 PRs, 167 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the `sequelize-auto` project by fixing tests and improving the codebase. The commits indicate efforts to address compatibility issues with the latest version of the Sequelize library. Their work involved modifying existing test files and core library files to ensure the project's functionality aligns with the updated Sequelize features. The user's changes also included improvements to the build process and fixing issues with the generation of models.
sequelizejavascriptsequelize-modelsdatabasebare
sequelize/sequelize
Jan 2013 - Nov 2021
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB (v6), DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:323 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's commits primarily focused on enhancing the PostgreSQL dialect support within the Sequelize ORM. They implemented features related to handling special characters in PostgreSQL usernames and passwords, along with adding the capability for schema declarations. Furthermore, the user added support for the HSTORE data type in PostgreSQL, which involved modifications to several files to properly handle and validate this type. The user also added code for enabling decimal support for min/max functions.
feature-richormsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversequelize
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