Summary
Daniel Holmes is a Senior Platform Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and maintaining high-traffic web applications and cloud infrastructure from Olathe, Kansas. He has led backend and platform work for systems supporting millions of users, specializing in Node.js/TypeScript, PHP/Symfony, GraphQL, CI/CD, and AWS/Kubernetes operational patterns. Known for wearing many hats, he blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and cross-functional facilitation to keep releases reliable while modernizing legacy stacks. Daniel has significant experience as a technical lead guiding teams through large replatforming efforts and preserving existing operations during transitions. He favors pragmatic, well-documented processes and has repeatedly improved developer workflows and release pipelines. Outside of obvious tech skills, he brings a systems-minded view formed by long-tenured roles spanning application architecture, operations, and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer