Daniel Cohen
Director - API Engineering at Nearmap
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDaniel Cohen is a seasoned software engineering leader based in Sydney with over a decade focused on API-first platforms and 20 years of engineering experience overall. As Director of API Engineering at Nearmap he drives technical strategy and leads distributed teams building scalable services on AWS, Kubernetes and Go, with a track record of moving internal and public APIs from concept to production. He combines hands-on backend craftsmanship—from C# enterprise systems to modern microservices—with people leadership, having grown and coached remote-first teams across multiple companies. Daniel’s background includes delivering multi-tenant SaaS platforms for multimedia and video services and embedded/PC software for medical devices, which informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and performance. Known for translating complex requirements into robust platform services, he balances technical depth with operational focus to enable other API teams to ship faster.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (176)
trading10
jdownloader10
kraken10
cryptocurrency10
portable10
ddl10
synology10
exchange10
api10
bitcoin10
inotify10
pypi10
portable-class-library10
stripe10
kucoin10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
daniel-cohen/secretsfetcher
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
A CLI tool to fetch secrets from a secret management store
Contributions:30 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
golangsecret-managementsecuritystore-managementcli-tool
nearmap/gdal
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Go (golang) wrapper for GDAL, the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 9 months
golanggeospatialgolang-wrapperh3abstraction-library
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