Dan Lewis-Toakley
Software Engineer at Thoughtworks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Lewis-Toakley is a software engineer based in New York with seven years of hands-on experience building cloud-integrated full-stack solutions. At Thoughtworks and as an active GitHub contributor, he has focused on AWS and GCP integrations, helping evolve the well-known Cloud Carbon Footprint project to support multi-account setups, new services like Redshift and Kinesis, and improved authentication and configurability. He routinely refactors core logic for scalability and testability, extracts configuration to environment variables, and strengthens test suites to make cloud cost and emissions estimation production-ready. Dan blends backend cloud expertise with practical engineering discipline, shipping features that bridge infrastructure, security, and observability. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces operational constraints early and turns them into maintainable code.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
cloud-computing10
back-end-development10
testing10
sustainability10
gcp10
aws10
backend10
api-design9
javascript9
apim9
typescript9
typescript-types9
api9
typescripts9
cloud-infrastructure8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footprint
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
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
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:199 commits, 29 pushes, 6 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed extensively to the cloud-carbon-footprint project, demonstrating a focus on AWS and GCP integrations. Their work included implementing multiple account support, authentication, and refactoring key classes to support the integration of AWS and GCP account estimations. The user also worked on extracting application configuration to environment variables and improving the test suite. Furthermore, the user played a key role in updating the project to support new services such as Redshift, and Kinesis.
climatepythonfootprintcloudemissions
dtoakley-tw/backstage
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
portalsbackstageopen-platformportal
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