Daniel Harris
Senior Software Engineer at HID
Blackwood, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Harris is a Senior Software Engineer and PhD in Computer Science with 8 years of experience building embedded Linux services, cloud infrastructure, and high-performance distributed systems. He specialises in Rust, C++, and Terraform, and has repeatedly bridged research and production—publishing a PhD on virtual reality data visualisation for cyber security while migrating enterprise systems to Azure and architecting IPC and microservice standards. Comfortable across industry, academia, and large-scale cloud environments, Daniel focuses on robust, scalable architectures, CI/CD automation, and mentoring teams to improve delivery. Based in Blackwood, Wales, he brings a rare combination of hands-on embedded engineering and cloud-native infrastructure expertise, often turning research insights into practical, deployable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Virtual Reality Data Visualisation for Cyber Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Virtual Reality Data Visualisation for Cyber Security at University of South WalesIT Level 3 Extended Diploma, IT Level 3 Extended Diploma at Crosskeys College
Github Skills (71)
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desktop10
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azure9
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resource-manager9
azure-resource-manager9
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arduino8
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platformio8
analytics7
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
danieljharris/IATK
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
Immersive Analytics Toolkit
Contributions:58 commits, 16 PRs, 108 pushes in 11 months
analyticsimmersive
danieljharris/FIESTA
May 2021 - Nov 2023
Free-roaming Immersive Environment to Support Team-based Analysis
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
roamingpythonteam-supportimmersive
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