Daniel Chesterton
Founder at Send Once
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Chesterton is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native systems for clients including Monzo, Sky and Sky Bet. He combines hands-on expertise across TypeScript, Go, React and AWS with deep operational know-how in Kubernetes, Kafka and various databases, having implemented serverless scaling patterns for his SaaS Send Once that moves hundreds of photos per minute without queuing. Equally comfortable leading teams as an engineering manager or shipping code as a contractor, he has modernised legacy stacks and introduced test-driven practices on multiple engagements. An active contributor to Doctrine DBAL, he’s fixed nuanced MySQL platform issues and improved unsigned numeric handling—showing attention to correctness in both application and database layers. Based in Manchester, he also runs a successful photo agency, blending technical leadership with real-world product and content experience.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of PortsmouthA Level Economics Maths Computing Further Maths (AS Level), A Level Economics Maths Computing Further Maths (AS Level) at Seevic CollegeCornelius Vermuyden School
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Github Skills (15)
doctrine10
databases10
sql10
database-design10
mysql10
database10
php9
jmsserializerbundle6
oop6
design-patterns6
doctrine-orm6
csv6
symfony6
serialization6
postgresql4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/dbal
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Doctrine Database Abstraction Layer
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on improving the MySQL platform implementation within the Doctrine DBAL project. They addressed issues related to the generation of SQL for unsigned float and decimal data types, ensuring compatibility and correctness. Their contributions involved modifying the MySqlPlatform class and updating the documentation to reflect these changes. Furthermore, the user made code simplifications and adjustments to the declaration of unsigned fields.
sql-servermysqlphpdbaloracle
dchesterton/home-assistant.io
Dec 2018 - Apr 2023
:blue_book: Home Assistant User documentation
Contributions:11 pushes in 4 years 3 months
blueuser-documentationassistanthacshome-automation
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