Daniel Cox
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Cox is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and services. He has progressed from associate roles to senior engineering at Google, contributing to YouTube Music and bringing hands-on expertise in backend, DevOps, and serverless architectures. At Amplify and in open-source work, he implemented robust AWS integrations—such as improving API Gateway domain management with retry logic and test coverage—demonstrating attention to reliability and operational excellence. He is comfortable across the stack with Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, Datadog, Splunk, and a Java/Big Data background that includes Hadoop, Cassandra, and Spark. Known for blending day-to-day engineering with pragmatic process leadership (scrum master experience) and research-minded problem solving from his RIT SLAM work, he balances shipping product features with observability and compliance. Colleagues would describe him as quietly methodical, with a knack for improving resilience in production systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma General Engineeering, High School Diploma General Engineeering at Brooklyn Technical High School
Russian
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Github Skills (13)
serverless10
api-gateway10
aws-sdk10
aws-cloudformation9
configuration-management9
route539
typescripts8
typescript8
unit-testing8
typescript-types8
lambda7
lambdas7
amazon-certificate-manager6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amplify-education/serverless-domain-manager
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Serverless plugin for managing custom domains with API Gateways.
Role in this project:
Back-end Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 days
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the configuration and functionality of a serverless custom domain plugin. They implemented a retry mechanism by configuring max retries within the AWS SDK config. Further, they updated existing code related to API gateway and configuration, improving the project's integration with API Gateway. Additionally, they added and updated unit tests and ensured the code base met linting standards.
api-gatewayapicustom-domainsroute53api-gateways
dariuscox/splitter
Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
Split those bills (in multiple interfaces and languages)
Contributions:11 reviews, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years
interfacessplitlanguagesbills
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