Daniel Bankhead
Software Engineer at Open Source
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Bankhead is a San Francisco–based software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems, developer tooling, and DevOps solutions at Google and across open-source projects. He combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with empathy for users, focusing on robustness—evident in his work improving retry logic and resumable uploads in Google Cloud Storage and contributing to Google’s repo-automation bots and auth libraries. Past roles span strategic cloud engineering, developer relations, and product-focused startups where he led migrations to TypeScript, sped onboarding, and delivered regulated-privacy systems for robotics and food automation. An active maintainer, he bridges product and infrastructure concerns, shipping reproducible samples and CI/CD improvements for multi-cloud storage transfers. Daniel’s background as a founder and consultant surfaces in his knack for practical trade-offs and scaling developer workflows while keeping accessibility and quality front-and-center.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics, Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
English, Mongolian
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Github Skills (40)
javascript10
docker10
python10
probot10
testing10
sample-size10
user-authentication10
authentication10
typescript10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
sample-rate10
google-cloud-storage10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/nodejs-storage
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Node.js client for Google Cloud Storage: unified object storage for developers and enterprises, from live data serving to data analytics/ML to data archiving.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:216 reviews, 31 commits, 94 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on refactoring and improving the retry logic within the Google Cloud Storage Node.js client. Their contributions involved unifying retry mechanisms, renaming functions, and using `PreconditionOptions` to determine retry conditions. Additionally, the user exposed the `chunkSize` parameter for `CreateResumableUploadOptions` and fixed an issue related to duplicate response handlers on retries within the gcs-resumable-upload library. These changes directly impact the reliability and functionality of the storage client.
data-analyticsanalyticsjs-clientservingnode-js
googleapis/google-auth-library-nodejs
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
🔑 Google Auth Library for Node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:212 reviews, 24 commits, 232 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Google Auth Library for Node.js, focusing on enhancing its functionality and maintainability. Their work includes exporting the `AuthClient` type for broader use, supporting the instantiation of `GoogleAuth` with an `AuthClient`, and refactoring the code by renaming `auth` to `authClient` and using generics. They also removed deprecated options and added the support for generating an ID token for Impersonated clients. The user's commits also included changes in samples and test files, demonstrating the implementation of new features.
auth-librarygoogle-auth-librarygooglenode-jsauthentication
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