Dan Caseley
Maestro Architect at XMPP Standards Foundation
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Caseley is a Maestro Architect and seasoned test engineering leader with over a decade of experience driving quality, automation, and CI improvements across web, mobile and backend systems. He combines hands-on test automation and DevOps skills—recently stabilising Rocket.Chat.ReactNative e2e pipelines with Docker orchestration and flaky-test fixes—and deep protocol-level expertise from contributions to XMPP projects like Openfire and Smack. Known for coaching teams and shaping testing culture, he has helped organisations move from fortnightly releases to multiple daily deploys while introducing security-focused practices and accessibility compliance. An active community contributor and XMPP Standards Foundation council member, he blends practical tooling work with product-facing influence to help teams bootstrap cross-platform test automation and make risk-informed quality decisions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software Engineering at Aberystwyth UniversityBristol Cathedral School
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Github Skills (41)
e2e-testing10
xmpp10
detox10
docker10
react-native10
e2e-test10
react-native-component10
dockers10
java10
cicd10
javas10
junit10
android10
openfire10
test-automation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
igniterealtime/Openfire
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:342 reviews, 167 commits, 188 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the Openfire XMPP server's functionality and maintainability, with a focus on the build and deployment. Contributions include making the entrypoint JRE agnostic, adding log4j configuration to the entrypoint script, and refactoring the Docker build process to improve efficiency. The user also addressed database-related issues by fixing SQL statement parameter ordering and enhancing the session summary page, demonstrating a breadth of knowledge in server infrastructure.
openfirexmpp-serverxmpplicensedapache-license
igniterealtime/Smack
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 15 commits, 13 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan's commits primarily focus on integration testing of the Smack XMPP client library, particularly around Multi-User Chat (MUC) features. They implemented tests to validate presence updates related to joining and leaving rooms, as well as role and affiliation changes. The user also added tests for kick scenarios and fixed existing test issues. This suggests a focus on ensuring the library's correctness and adherence to XMPP standards within a MUC context.
xmppvmsjava-libraryclient-libraryandroid-library
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