Daniel Li
Senior Software Engineer at Nearform
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel 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
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry at Imperial College LondonA-Levels, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Art, Chinese (Mandarin), A-Levels, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Art, Chinese (Mandarin) at Bradford Grammar School
German, Japanese, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
web-application10
testing10
drag10
npm-package10
instrumentation10
chat10
visual-studio10
subversion10
linter10
influxdb10
fastify10
dotenv10
api10
split-pane10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
d4nyll/mermal
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Merge YAML files together
Contributions:80 commits, 41 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years 4 months
swaggerperl5mergeyaml-configurationyaml-files
d4nyll/instafetch
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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