Daniel Arias
Staff Platform UI Engineer
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Arias is a Staff Platform UI Engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing resilient, user-focused web applications and leading engineering teams across startups and large enterprises. He has driven technical vision at companies like Twilio, New Relic, and NerdWallet, specializing in React, TypeScript, scalable front-end architecture, observability, and CI/CD for complex product surfaces such as console integrations and Kubernetes visualizations. Known for balancing delivery with technical debt management and security best practices, he excels at mentoring teams and aligning engineering decisions with business goals. Based in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Daniel brings a global, remote-first collaboration style honed by coordinating cross-timezone teams and shipping production-grade UIs that support large-scale systems. An understated strength is his repeated focus on integrating observability and ML-driven features into front-end platforms to turn operational signals into better user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Computing, Computer Science, Bachelor of Business Computing, Computer Science at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
Spanish, English
Github Skills (52)
kubernetes10
docker10
charts10
mappings10
helm10
k8s10
relic9
newrelic9
backlog9
asciidoc8
vega8
monitoring7
golang7
machine-learning7
apache-arrow7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dfernandeza/data-structures-and-algorithms
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Implementations for common data structures and algorithms using modern JavaScript.
Contributions:48 commits, 10 PRs, 56 pushes in 10 months
data-structuresjavascripttypescript
dfernandeza/dfernandeza
Oct 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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