Daniel Firsht
Staff Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Westminster, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Firsht is a Staff Software Engineer based in Westminster, Colorado with a decade of experience building reliable, production-grade cloud services and developer tooling. He has led teams and shipped major features at AWS—including Lambda/IAM authorizers, high-throughput record processors, and a global serverless canary for SMS reliability—bringing product ownership from design through security reviews and operational readiness. At IBM he contributed Swift expertise and helped lead the open-source Kitura web framework, fixing memory leaks, improving error handling, and hardening dependency management for a project with strong community traction. Comfortable across backend systems, serverless architectures, and mobile/Swift ecosystems, he pairs hands-on coding with team leadership and on-call incident work. A practical problem-solver, he has a track record of optimizing performance and stability while mentoring peers and running Scrum processes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (7)
kitura10
web-framework10
error-handling10
swift10
dependency-management9
url-routing8
server-side-swift7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Kitura/Kitura
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
A Swift web framework and HTTP server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 171 commits, 50 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Kitura web framework by fixing memory leaks in the Router, updating Package.swift to use specific versions of dependencies like Kitura-net, Kitura-router and adding functionalities for error handling with the relevant error handling interfaces and initial implementation of error handlers. The user also refactored the existing error handling and added a default 404. These changes show improvements in stability, dependency management and functionality enhancement of the framework.
sslframeworkroutingswiftserver
csync/TogetherStream
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
A social and synchronized streaming experience
Contributions:3 releases, 248 commits, 58 PRs in 4 months
synchronizedstreamsstreaminggossip
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