Daniel Goldman
Associate Chair
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Goldman is an operations-focused engineering lead with nine years of experience coordinating technical projects and maintaining infrastructure for the McGill Science Computer Taskforce as Associate Chair. He combines a mechanical engineering background from McGill with hands-on backend and DevOps work, including contributions to the well-known Pants build system where he improved tooling for external tool versions, Terraform validation, and Python debug workflows. Comfortable bridging academic, student-driven initiatives and production-grade tooling, he has pragmatic experience in process design from earlier supplier-quality work at Pratt & Whitney Canada. Daniel is adept at scripting and build-system internals, and takes a systems-first approach to make infrastructure reliable and auditable. Colleagues rely on him to shepherd complex projects from proposal through maintenance while mentoring contributors in a collaborative university environment.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at McGill University
Github Skills (13)
terraformer10
build-tools10
build-system10
python10
terraform10
devops9
docker8
automations8
automation8
dockers8
rust5
shell5
go4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pantsbuild/pants
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
The Pants Build System
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:156 reviews, 6 commits, 88 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the Pants Build System by adding a codec for handling versions of external tools and a script to generate version data for the Terraform binary. They also fixed an issue with the `cargo install` invocation and implemented a feature to add debug goals to Python, demonstrating an involvement in scripting, build tool improvements, and Python backend functionality. Furthermore, they improved the visualization of engine rules and addressed issues with Terraform validation, showcasing experience in the project's core build system and infrastructure-related tooling.
pythonprotobufaws-lambdapantsshell
lilatomic/ansible
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Contributions:78 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
everythingsshinfrastructure-managementcloud-managementtower
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