Daniel Colson
Lead Information Security Engineer
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Colson is a Lead Information Security Engineer in Charlotte with 13 years of experience securing enterprise environments at TIAA. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend development skills—evident from open-source contributions that automate Docker compose generation and enhance a Twitter frontend scraper—with a strong foundation in Linux systems administration. Comfortable scripting and packaging tools, he has improved automation, dependency management, and multi-container/network support in community projects. Daniel’s background in practical troubleshooting and process automation began in university technical support roles, giving him a pragmatic approach to reducing toil and hardening systems. Colson combines security leadership with developer instincts to deliver auditable, reproducible infrastructure and tooling.
13 years of coding experience
BA, Software and Information Systems, BA, Software and Information Systems at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Github Skills (22)
docker10
twitter10
python10
docker-compose10
webscraping10
dockers10
compose10
twitter-api10
automation10
automations10
scripting9
clientside9
packaging9
webclient9
cli8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Red5d/docker-autocompose
Jan 2016 - Aug 2022
Generate a docker-compose yaml definition from a running container
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 39 commits, 23 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the automation and packaging aspects of the repository. They started by adding an `autocompose.py` script, crucial for the project's core functionality. Their work included creating a `setup.py` file for packaging, reformatting the script to meet packaging requirements, and integrating the script into the build process, including updates to module versions and dependencies. They also improved the script's functionality with version updates, generation of multi-container files, and support for network features.
dockercomposeautomationdocker-composedefinition
bisguzar/twitter-scraper
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Scrape the Twitter Frontend API without authentication.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 5 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Twitter scraper. Their contributions included extracting and parsing tweet metadata, such as replies, retweets, likes, tweet IDs, and posting times. They also refactored the code, updated dependencies, and added functionality to improve the information extracted from Twitter.
apipythonwithout-apiscrapejavascript
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