Daniel Gil
Lead Software Engineer at Flybikes SL
Vigo, Galicia, Spain
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Top SchoolDaniel Gil is a Lead Software Engineer based in Vigo, Spain, with 14 years of hands-on experience building backend and full-stack systems. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at New Relic, contributing notably to instrumentation for logging frameworks in the high-profile newrelic-java-agent project to improve metric accuracy. Comfortable bridging product, design and systems, he enjoys teamwork and continuous learning across programming, design and infrastructure. He also runs long‑standing web and app development roles for small companies, bringing a pragmatic, client-facing perspective to enterprise engineering. Known as a tech lover on GitHub, he blends production-grade backend expertise with an eye for observability and reliable metrics. Fluent in Spanish and steeped in Galicia’s tech scene, he combines local roots with global SaaS engineering experience.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ciclo Superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web Informática, Ciclo Superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web Informática at I.E.S. San ClementeCiclo Medio Explotación de Sistemas Informáticos Informática, Ciclo Medio Explotación de Sistemas Informáticos Informática at I.E.S. de Teis
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
log4j10
logback10
java10
git6
html6
algorithm6
css6
woocommerce6
orders6
javascript6
radio-buttons6
laravel6
ssh6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-java-agent
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
The New Relic Java agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to adding and improving metrics instrumentation for various logging frameworks used by the New Relic Java agent. Their work involved instrumenting log4j-1, log4j-2, and Java Logging (JUL) to capture log events and expose them as metrics. They also fixed a typo in a metric name and addressed issues related to duplicate logging and counters in the log4j integration, ensuring accurate metric reporting. Furthermore, they improved the agent's integration with the logback framework by using the formatted message.
newrelicagentjsinteropsecurityjava-agent
danybmx/magenta
Feb 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
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