Daniel Church
Delivery Driver at UPS
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Church is an experienced software engineer with 14 years of technical experience who is actively transitioning into a dedicated cybersecurity role. He has led small engineering teams and driven secure development practices across web platforms, from Ruby on Rails and Magento storefronts to legacy Java migrations, while implementing PCI-DSS controls and automated security scanning with tools like ZAP and Acunetix360. His hands-on incident response work includes investigating phishing takedowns and remediating production vulnerabilities, and he holds Security+ and CySA+ certifications to formalize that expertise. Daniel also brings strong DevOps and automation chops—Ansible playbooks, GitLab CI, and large-scale load testing—to ensure stable, scalable deployments. An editor of open-source documentation for the well-known aria2 project, he pairs pragmatic code and docs work with an eye for clarity and maintainability. Based in Minneapolis, he blends practical field experience with security-first engineering to help teams ship resilient, compliant systems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-River FallsAssociate of Science (AS) Web Programming And Database Development, Associate of Science (AS) Web Programming And Database Development at Dunwoody College of Technology
Esperanto, Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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554answers
16questions
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Github Skills (30)
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
aria2/aria2
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 1 commit, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the project by editing documentation files. Their changes focused on fixing typos, correcting grammatical errors, and re-wording sections for clarity. The contributions primarily involved modifying the project's documentation, including manual pages, to improve readability and accuracy.
downloadrpcmulti-sourcemulti-protocolsftp
h3xx/easylist
Aug 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 3 months
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