Daniel Kift
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Kift is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems, currently at Shopify in Swansea. He specializes in microservices, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and JVM and JavaScript stacks—particularly Kotlin/Java with Spring Boot and Vert.x—while driving infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD excellence. Daniel values performance, scalability, and clean code, often focusing on practical improvements that make systems more observable and maintainable. His MSc with distinction in Computer Science underpins a methodical approach to engineering, blending academic rigor with product-focused execution. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed systems problems into reliable, deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
BA (hons), Managment Studies, BA (hons), Managment Studies at University of NottinghamMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Distinction at Swansea University
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Github Skills (81)
coverage10
checkout10
shopify10
java10
spring-boot10
kotlin10
spring10
rest9
payment9
figma-plugin9
mutation-testing9
swift9
testng9
junit9
component-library9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/checkout-sheet-kit-android
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Shopify’s Checkout Sheet Kit makes it simple to perform a checkout inside your Android app.
Contributions:11 releases, 68 reviews, 124 PRs in 1 year 5 months
androidcheckoutkotlinshopify
kiftio/pitest
Oct 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 7 months
artmutationtestingmutation-testingstate-of-the-art
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