Daniel Backhoff
Staff Software Engineer at SoFi
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Backhoff is a seasoned Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building Java web applications and full-stack systems, and a strong grounding in Ruby on Rails and iOS development. He combines hands-on engineering with infrastructure and QA expertise—spanning UI, backend, CI/CD, TDD, and performance testing—and treats software development as a craft. Daniel has led and scaled teams as VP of Engineering and co-founded HELIX RE, bringing product-minded leadership to both startups and enterprise clients like Target, Audi, and Nike. He contributes to open source (authoring the JCR-Mock library) and has a history of shipping complex integrations such as AEM-backed mobile apps and Adobe Flex frontends. Comfortable in both greenfield startups and large delivery organizations, he is known for mentoring distributed teams and delivering pragmatic, testable architectures under tight deadlines.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electronic Engineering, Bachelor, Electronic Engineering at ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (88)
google-cloud-platform10
crx9
kubelet9
gcp9
proxy9
ruby-client9
google-cloud9
cloud-platform9
reactor9
bootstrap9
viewer9
spring9
adobe-experience-manager9
aem9
spring-boot-starter9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danvalencia/burning-man-hands
Feb 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:53 commits in 5 months
tacitknowledge/jcr-mock
Oct 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
testingruby-clientmocksmockingmocking-library
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