Daniel Boles
Associate Software Engineer
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDaniel Boles is an Associate Software Engineer and Southern Illinois University computer science graduate with a decade of hands-on experience delivering practical technology solutions across finance and media environments. He recently transitioned from a Finance & Investment Solutions internship at RGA—where he automated complex investment data flows using Java, Python, SQL, Snowflake and OpenLink Findur—to a full-time engineering role supporting RGA’s investment systems. Daniel contributes to GTK+ upstream work, improving UI components, theming, and test coverage, reflecting a solid full‑stack sensibility that spans front-end UI polish to back-end data processing. Based in Greater St. Louis, he blends internship-driven financial systems experience with leadership in the Saluki Student Investment Fund, showing a rare mix of domain knowledge in investments and practical engineering chops. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and curious, eager to explore how technology reshapes industry workflows beyond obvious automation tasks.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (10)
css10
uid10
gtk10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
c119
theming9
c179
testing8
build-system7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GNOME/gtk
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:274 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on improving the GTK+ toolkit, making changes related to UI components and theming. Their contributions included fixing issues in existing components like GtkEntry and GtkTreeView, as well as enhancing CSS documentation and addressing theming inconsistencies. The user also worked on adding test cases to improve the robustness of the toolkit and fixing existing build errors related to the test suite. Their work involved modifying source code files related to the UI elements of GTK+.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongtk-rsgnomegitlab
db-src/libsigcplusplus
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
libsigc++ implements a typesafe callback system for standard C++. It allows you to define signals and to connect those signals to any callback function, either global or a member function, regardless of whether it is static or virtual.
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
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