Daniel Li
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RockstarDaniel Li is a Senior Software Engineer in the UK with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms, DevOps tooling, and developer productivity systems. He’s the author of two technical books—Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications and Internal Developer Platform on AWS—and blends hands-on engineering with practical knowledge-sharing. At Nearform he shaped observability and FinOps initiatives (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, KEDA) and maintains GitOps CI platforms using Jenkins and ArgoCD. His background spans founding a consultancy, leading frontend teams, and implementing IaC and security practices across AWS using Pulumi, Terraform, Renovate, Snyk and Wiz. He routinely drives engineering standards—documentation, logging/metrics conventions, OKRs and postmortems—while also improving pipeline performance and container security. A biochemistry graduate with naval training early in his career, he brings scientific rigor and operational discipline to software and platform engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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terraform
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regex
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javascript
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meteor
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
npm-package10
chat10
linter10
instagram-api10
dotenv10
api10
split-pane10
secret-management10
gitignore10
environment-variables10
maintainability10
prometheus10
nodejs10
trust10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
d4nyll/braintree-mongo
Jul 2017 - Sep 2024
NPM Package that provides an abstraction layer for integrating an e-commerce site with Braintree, using MongoDB as its database
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 2 months
braintreedatabaseecommercemongodbnpm-package
d4nyll/lethargy
May 2015 - Oct 2019
Distinguish between scroll events initiated by the user, and those by inertial scrolling
Contributions:33 commits, 9 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years 6 months
smooth-scrollingeventsscroll-eventsscrollerscroll
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