Daniel Huckstep
Director Of Platform R&D
Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel Huckstep is a seasoned platform engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and operating multi-tenant eCommerce and eLearning systems that serve millions of users. As Director of Platform R&D he combines hands-on development in Ruby on Rails, Angular and SQL with deep AWS expertise—managing EKS clusters, multi-account infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and a developer-focused AWS environment to accelerate onboarding. He’s known for pragmatic engineering: shipping a custom SQL-based reporting language, a high-performance exam engine, and reusable modules like a discussion forum and S3-backed URL shortener. Daniel pairs technical stewardship with team coaching—pairing, standards and code review—to keep applications highly maintainable in regulated contexts. Based in Nova Scotia, he self-describes as a “software mechanic,” reflecting a practical, systems-first approach to solving complex platform challenges.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta
English
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Github Skills (200)
yum10
multithreading10
rack10
markup-language10
api10
amazon10
visualization10
ruby10
mysql10
slack10
server10
dashboard10
postgresql10
haml10
sql10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
darkhelmet/darkblog2
Aug 2010 - Jan 2013
Contributions:528 commits in 2 years 5 months
darkhelmet/rack-gist
Jul 2010 - Jun 2012
Contributions:64 commits in 1 year 11 months
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