Daniel Lira
Senior Software Engineer at Ballast Lane Applications, LLC
Latin America Laos
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Lira is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade-long software background and six years of focused professional experience building scalable web platforms. He specializes in front-end engineering with React and TypeScript, alongside GraphQL/Ruby on Rails APIs, and has led migrations, component libraries, and checkout/critical API architectures. Daniel has driven platform work at companies ranging from startups to VMware, contributing to Backstage theming and Kubernetes-backed learning environments, and he often pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and hiring. Based in Laos but operating across Latin America, he brings a pragmatic blend of full‑stack engineering and systems thinking, plus a subtle hacker-nerd curiosity that drives continuous improvement.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Systems Engineering, Engineer's Degree Systems Engineering at Universidad Santa MaríaBusiness Administration and Graphic Design, Business Administration and Graphic Design at Universidad Nueva EspartaHigh School Sciences, High School Sciences at U.E Americo Vespucio
Spanish, English, Italian
Github Skills (10)
backstage10
service-catalog10
infrastructure10
dx10
microservices10
portal3
backbonejs2
axe1
productivity-tools1
github-issues1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lengio/create-react-app
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Set up a modern web app by running one command.
Contributions:9 PRs, 52 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
set-upmodern-web-appmodern-web
danielortizlira/backstage
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
portalsbackbonejsopen-platformportalbackstage
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