Daniel Milde
Staff Software Engineer at Milde.cz
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Milde is a Staff Software Engineer based in Prague with 15 years of experience building and operating production-grade Linux/Python platforms, databases, and cloud-native deployments. He has led small engineering teams at Seznam.cz, shepherded CI/CD and Kubernetes adoption, and now drives platform work at Outreach while running his own Debian hosting service. Hands-on across Python, MySQL, JavaScript, bash and Git, he pairs systems-level pragmatism with application development experience. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved usability and core behavior in projects like the popular gdu disk analyzer and the Phing build system—demonstrating a knack for thoughtful refactors that surface clearer operator-facing output. He combines formal software engineering training from Czech Technical University with a long track record of shipping reliable, maintainable infrastructure and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Software engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Software engineering at Czech Technical University in PragueMaster's Degree, Software engineering, Master's Degree, Software engineering at České vysoké učení technické v Praze
English, German, Czech
Stackoverflow
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apache
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Github Skills (20)
testing10
command-line-interface10
php10
go10
build-automation10
command-line10
build-tools10
ant10
cli10
apache9
makefile8
gnu-make8
systemd6
curl6
vim6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dundee/gdu
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 releases, 30 reviews, 348 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the "gdu" project. Their contributions included implementing a more user-friendly output format for listing devices, refactoring commands and tests, and adding the ability to show information about the hard-linked files. They also modified core components like the main application file and the TUI component. Overall, the changes improved the usability and information display of the disk usage analyzer.
golangconsolediskanalysisfilesystem
phingofficial/phing
May 2012 - Jul 2014
PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the PHP project build system, focusing on improving its functionality and features. Their work included modifying the property task, adding a logging feature to property task and target, and incorporating changes to existing classes. The user also addressed code formatting and corrected attribute handling. This demonstrates a focus on enhancing the core components and functionality of the build tool.
build-projectphpapachegnu-makegnu
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