Daniel Maher is a Senior Technical Advocate based in Paris with 15 years of experience blending hands‑on DevOps engineering, developer relations, and product advocacy. He has built Developer Relations programmes from scratch, led cross‑functional outreach at companies like Scaleway and Cerbos, and returned to Datadog to scale technical advocacy with a practitioner’s mindset. Equally comfortable writing code and keynote talks, he has deep operational roots at Mozilla—where he redesigned crash reporting infrastructure—and ongoing open‑source contributions to projects such as Socorro and community sites like devopsdays. Known for turning complex infrastructure into compelling developer stories, he also has a knack for building internal training and content programs that amplify technical teams.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Internet Systems & Physics, Internet Systems & Physics at The University of Winnipeg
Contributions:231 commits, 211 PRs, 170 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's commits primarily focus on website code changes for the devopsdays website, including updates to event pages, sponsor information, and program schedules. These changes suggest a role in maintaining the website's content and structure. The user also merged updates, resolving conflicts, and made adjustments to the site's layout and information. Furthermore, the user modified content related to event sponsors and registration, indicating involvement in website maintenance.
Socorro is the Mozilla crash ingestion pipeline. It accepts and processes Breakpad-style crash reports. It provides analysis tools.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:63 commits, 31 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management within the repository. Their commits demonstrate modifications to the build and deployment processes, including setting up and configuring services in the Vagrant environment, and adjustments to dependencies. The user also addressed packaging and dependency management issues, ensuring the project's build and deployment are streamlined and reliable.
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