Daniel Chambers
Staff Software Engineer at Hasura
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDaniel Chambers is a Staff Software Engineer in Melbourne with 13 years' experience building reliable, cloud-enabled systems and leading small teams across consulting and product environments. He brings deep Microsoft-stack expertise complemented by practical experience in JavaScript front-ends, Haskell, F#, and AWS/Azure, and has a strong focus on functional programming and engineering quality. At Hasura he contributes to the core GraphQL engine—fixing subtle API and JWT issues—and has a track record of shipping pragmatic backend improvements that bolster real-time and REST behaviors. He has mentored teams in DevOps and automated testing, spoken widely about functional languages and patterns, and consistently translates academic interest in FP into production-ready solutions. Notably, his blend of consultancy breadth and open-source backend fixes makes him comfortable moving between client-facing requirements and low-level protocol or schema nuances.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Professional Software Development, Bachelor of Science - BS, Professional Software Development at Swinburne University of Technology
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back-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
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openapi9
linq-to-xml9
haskell8
security7
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asp-net-mvc6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hasura/graphql-engine
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 86 commits, 1 PR in 1 year
Contributions summary:Daniel's commits focus on enhancing the Hasura GraphQL engine, mainly by addressing bugs and improving features related to the API's behavior. The contributions primarily revolve around fixing issues in areas like schema dropdown sorting, REST endpoint specifications, GQL alias handling, and JWT refresh mechanisms. These improvements enhance the functionality and reliability of the GraphQL engine.
realtimefine-grained-access-controlgraphql-serversql-serverhaskell
hasura/ndc-sdk-typescript
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
NDC SDK for TypeScript
Contributions:14 releases, 18 reviews, 55 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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