Chris Daley
Director at Cascadia Technical Mentorship
Winlock, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Daley is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years blending software engineering, security practice, and unconventional domain expertise in lactation biology. Currently Director of Engineering at Feanix and former long-time director of a technical mentorship org, he pairs hands-on contributions to open-source projects like the Go-based Tegola vector tile server and Biopython with strategic delivery and QA automation. His background includes operational leadership in high-risk field operations and humanitarian logistics with Médecins Sans Frontières and Greenpeace, giving him rare depth in crisis planning, secure operations, and cross-cultural team management. Comfortable shipping robust, well-tested systems, he brings a pragmatic security-first mindset informed by real-world emergency logistics and scientific training in computer science and molecular biology.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
136reputation
4kreached
7answers
2questions
Github Skills (18)
python10
testing10
biopython10
go10
bioinformatics10
fuzzing10
documentation10
sequence-alignment9
wkb9
gis8
vector-tiles8
golang8
odata6
genie6
django-models6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
biopython/biopython
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 18 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on modifying docstrings and removing extraneous characters, whitespace, and escape characters within docstrings across multiple files, including `_Raxml.py`, `Bio/Blast/Applications.py`, and `Bio/Sequencing/Applications/_bwa.py`. They also addressed issues by updating primer matches and associated files, and ensuring Sphinx API documentation was correctly generated. The user demonstrates proficiency in modifying and improving documentation.
git-repositoryphylogeneticspythondnagenomics
go-spatial/tegola
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Tegola is a Mapbox Vector Tile server written in Go
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the `tegola` project. Their work included adding fuzz tests to identify potential vulnerabilities and improve code robustness. This included creating fuzz functions, updating the test data generator, and moving fuzz-related components to internal directories. The commits demonstrate a commitment to comprehensive testing and improving overall software quality.
golangmvtmapboxwkbtile
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