Daniel Connor
CEO And Founder at Autopoetic
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Connor is a technical founder and engineering leader with 14 years of hands-on experience and over 20 years engaging deeply with scalable systems, distributed databases, and design-first engineering culture. As CEO and founder of Autopoetic and a former senior principal engineer at Google/Mandiant, he has built production-grade APIs and attack surface management platforms that operate at extreme scale. He’s guided a dozen startups as interim CTO/VPE, shaping hiring, craftsmanship, and resilient architectures across stacks from Rails and Node.js to Go, Kubernetes, and modern cloud databases. Equally comfortable in product and infrastructure work, he helped design IBM Cloud Databases’ API and championed 100% test coverage and modular, functional application patterns. Based in New York, he balances relentless systems focus with creative pursuits—always building side projects with friends and producing music—bringing an uncommon mix of cybernetics thinking and artistic sensibility to engineering leadership.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at University of Saint ThomasUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesMusic Production Degree, Music Production and Audio Engineering, Music Production Degree, Music Production and Audio Engineering at Institute of Production and Recording
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (115)
type-validation10
crud10
type-coercion10
logic9
loopback9
ethereum9
paperclip9
player9
riak9
dom9
canjs8
api8
validation8
javascript8
sharding8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
IBM-Cloud/smash-the-state
Nov 2017 - Oct 2021
A library for writing business logic in ruby that powers the IBM Cloud Databases API. It handles things like validation, type coercion, and error handling.
Contributions:2 reviews, 91 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 11 months
apitype-coercionvalidationibm-cloudpowers
compose/shoegaze
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Create mocks of modules (especially clients) with easily-defined scenarios (success, invalid, etc)
Contributions:40 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 4 months
mock-serverdefinedtestingmocksmocking
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