Dan Laufer
Backend Software Engineer III at Automox
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Laufer is a backend-focused software engineer with nearly two years of professional SWE internship experience and a strong academic foundation in Computer Science and Information Security from the University of Toronto, graduating December 2024. He has shipped production-grade microservices and full-stack tools at companies like Dayforce, AMD, and Wealthscope, working across C#, C++, Python, React, SQL/NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). As a seasoned teaching assistant across multiple core CS courses, he pairs hands-on engineering with clear mentorship and curriculum design—having led tutorials, created course content, and guided multi-month student projects. Notable projects include a Kubernetes-backed test-monitoring microservice integrated with Jira and a performance-metrics web app for GPU benchmarking, showing a knack for tooling that improves developer productivity. AWS Certified and multilingual (English, Polish, basic French), he’s open to new-grad SWE roles in North America and Europe and brings both systems-level rigor and a product-minded approach to backend systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science Majors: Computer Science Information Security. Minor: Mathematics., Honours Bachelor of Science Majors: Computer Science Information Security. Minor: Mathematics. at University of Toronto
Github Skills (4)
exchange2
javascript2
react2
firebase2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Daniel-Laufer/flashcard-app
Jul 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:28 PRs, 67 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
Daniel-Laufer/StudyTogether
May 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 71 branches in 2 years 4 months
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