Daniel Bush
Senior Software Engineer at Sypht
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Bush is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 17 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and integrations, currently focused on Node and React at Sypht. He has strong backend security experience—evidenced by notable open‑source contributions to Rocket.Chat where he implemented and hardened SAML authentication, Single Logout, and certificate/key handling. Prior roles at Domain and Catalyst IT broadened his stack to include PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python/Flask and operational training, making him comfortable across legacy and modern systems. A mathematician by training from the University of Sydney, he combines rigorous problem‑solving with pragmatic engineering to deliver secure, maintainable solutions. Despite pausing active job searching to finish current projects, he remains an experienced contributor to privacy‑focused communication platforms and enterprise web apps.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
English
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
meteor10
saml10
security9
coffeescript9
chat7
realtime6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) integration within the Rocket.Chat platform. Their work included implementing features related to loading service provider certificates and keys, and enhancing the platform to use cookies when handling SAML logout functionalities. They refactored and improved configurations related to public certificates and private keys. The user addressed issues with SAML URLs and implemented Single Logout (SLO) features, enhancing security and user management within the application.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
danielbush/BeerBot
Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:246 commits in 9 months
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