Daniel Baark
Lead Software Engineer at Made Tech
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Baark is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and guiding teams across consultancy and product environments, currently leading engineering at Made Tech. He combines pragmatic leadership with deep hands-on skill in Ruby and Rust, and contributes to open-source data tooling such as SciRuby's daru—improving DataFrame behavior, CSV boolean parsing, and vector outputs. With a background in Physics (BSc) and an MSc in Information Technology from the University of York, he brings a quantitative, systems-minded approach to software design and debugging. Known for shipping incremental improvements that make developer-facing libraries more predictable and usable, he thrives at the intersection of backend engineering and open-source ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at University of York
English, German
Github Skills (4)
ruby10
data-analysis10
csv9
vector9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
SciRuby/daru
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Data Analysis in RUby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 22 PRs, 71 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Daru library, focusing on data analysis functionality within the Ruby ecosystem. They implemented enhancements to existing features, such as returning vectors for multiple modal values and fixing issues with DataFrame operations. The user also improved the library's utility by adding a boolean converter to CSV input and improving the string representation of DataFrames and Vectors.
data-analysisruby
flathub/xyz.slothlife.Jogger
Sep 2023 - Mar 2026
Contributions:22 PRs, 22 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 6 months
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