Daniel Manila
Software Engineer at Seguno Software
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Manila is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently focused on backend systems and platform work while happily stepping into frontend and deployment tasks as needed. He has a track record of improving production performance (including a 50% speed win) and building end-to-end features—from design and infrastructure to QA and rollout—at companies like WillowTree and Seguno. A longtime tinkerer who started coding in middle school, he contributes to open-source projects such as the Luminus Clojure template and Python's watchdog, adding build tooling, test coverage, and Linux inotify fixes. Comfortable across Java, Python, Clojure and cloud-native tooling, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and a taste for trying new tools. Outside work he’s an avid climber, hiker, and dancer who often brings friends along—reflecting his collaborative, curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (24)
pytest10
python10
clojure-cli10
testing10
filesystem-events10
inotify10
clojure10
boot10
web-framework10
clojurescript10
linux9
leiningen9
dictionary9
eclipse9
database-migrations7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gorakhargosh/watchdog
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Python library and shell utilities to monitor filesystem events.
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Engineer
Backend & Test EngineerContributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the backend logic and testing of the `watchdog` library. Their work involved adding features for handling file move events on Linux systems, particularly related to the `inotify` module. The user implemented new test cases to validate these new functionalities, ensuring the correct behavior of the event handling mechanisms. They also refactored code and removed debug statements for improved readability.
python-libraryeventspythonmonitorfilesystem-events
luminus-framework/luminus-template
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
a template project for the Luminus framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the Luminus template, a Clojure web framework project, by adding and refining ClojureScript and Boot support. They implemented features for building Luminus projects with Boot, adding necessary files and configurations. The user also fixed issues in tests and the Boot figwheel task, ensuring proper reagent imports and correct arguments. Furthermore, they improved the project's configuration for migratus database migrations and updated project dependencies.
webframeworktemplateclojureluminus
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