Dan Lewis-toakley is a Lead Developer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native software, CI/CD pipelines, and delivery infrastructure for enterprise clients from ThoughtWorks in New York. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering with enterprise architecture and Backstage-driven developer platforms to help teams ship at scale. Dan has led ThoughtWorks’ Green Cloud initiatives and contributed to the open-source Cloud Carbon Footprint project—adding TypeScript refactors, a CO2e/energy/cost API feature, linting standards, and Azure provider support. His background spans high-impact social impact tech at Avaaz and large distributed campaigns, reflecting a knack for aligning technical strategy with mission-driven outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who still dives into code to solve thorny infra and sustainability problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts/Law, Political Science (Incomplete), Bachelor of Arts/Law, Political Science (Incomplete) at Monash University
Cloud Carbon Footprint is a tool to estimate energy use (kilowatt-hours) and carbon emissions (metric tons CO2e) from public cloud usage
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:14 reviews, 481 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dan's commits primarily involved the addition of ESLint, Prettier, and the fixing of linting errors in the codebase. These changes involved modifying TypeScript files to adhere to the new code styling standards. The user also refactored code in the core packages, including the addition of a new API feature to display CO2e/energy/cost data, and made modifications to the tests. Additionally, the user was also involved in the implementation of Azure support by the cloud provider.
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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Dan Lewis-toakley - Lead Developer at Thoughtworks