Daniel Fahy
Lead Software Development Engineer at Candid Tech NYC
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Fahy is a Lead Software Development Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building product-focused web applications for startups and businesses. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning Ruby on Rails, React, API design, and database migrations—with product-minded leadership, having moved live systems from MongoDB to Postgres and driven high test coverage initiatives. As a founder and co-founder of consumer-facing startups, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with practical engineering processes like TDD, SOLID principles, and clear cross-functional communication. His background in mechanical energy systems engineering and early work analyzing electricity markets give him a quantitative mindset and experience turning messy real-world data into actionable systems. Colleagues know him for raising code quality through rigorous reviews and for mentoring teams in both technical and non-technical storytelling. He currently leads development at Candid Tech NYC, building digital products that bridge design, product, and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
National University of Ireland, Galway, Mechanical Energy Systems Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Mechanical Energy Systems Engineering at Engineering 1st in Class National University of Ireland, Galway
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Github Skills (35)
workspace7
forum7
api-documentation7
rake6
jekyll6
sorting6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
refluxjs6
ruby6
zip6
markdown6
javascript6
postgresql6
coffeescript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danielfahy/neog_order_tracker
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
danielfahy/zip-codes
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Identify city and state for given zip code
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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