Daniel Datsev
Lead Backend Engineer at Elsewhen
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Datsev is a Lead Backend Engineer based in London with 13 years building reliable, maintainable backend systems across gaming, media and SRE roles. He blends a focus on simplicity and elegance with hands-on leadership, recently stepping into a lead role at Elsewhen after progressing from senior engineer. His background spans site reliability work at Midnite and tooling and backend engineering at Feral Interactive, RCS Technologies Greece and Radiojar, giving him a strong operational perspective on production systems. An MSc in Computer Science from the University of Leeds complements his practical experience and informs his attention to quality. He also contributes to open-source documentation, having improved clarity and configuration in the widely used Astropy astronomy library, showing an eye for developer experience beyond code. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving that reduces complexity without sacrificing robustness.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and BusinessMaster of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science at University of Leeds
English, Greek, Bulgarian
Github Skills (9)
astropy10
configuration-management10
configurations10
restructuredtext10
configuration-file10
documentation10
python9
astronomy8
astrophysics8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on documentation and configuration-related improvements within the Astropy project. Their contributions include fixing broken links in the documentation, updating the project's changelog, and removing unnecessary backticks. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the configuration files to enhance their accuracy. Their work improved the clarity and usability of the project's documentation.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
orangeblock/advent-of-code
Dec 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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