Dan Cowell
Senior Staff Software Engineer at SmartNews
Osaka, Japan
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Top SchoolDan Cowell is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Osaka with 11 years building high-performance, realtime web applications and cloud-native infrastructure. He combines hands-on full‑stack expertise in React, Node.js and Kubernetes with leadership experience as a director and head of engineering across fintech, crypto, and e‑commerce companies. Dan has led international teams, implemented deduplicating websocket hubs to reduce backend load, and scaled multi-region Kubernetes clusters to support zero-downtime deployments. Comfortable alternating between coding and strategy, he focuses on reliability, user-centric design, and pragmatic automation to keep systems available under heavy streaming load.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Games and Programming Skills, Computer Games and Programming Skills at QANTM College
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (83)
photo10
backup10
markdown10
javascript10
webscraper10
editor10
photo-gallery10
ethereum-wallet10
sveltekit10
electron10
typescript10
google-photos10
nodejs10
svelte10
flutter10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dfcowell/seisai
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Monorepo for the Seisai project.
Contributions:34 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
monorepo
dfcowell/immich
Jun 2023 - May 2024
Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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