Daniel Miranda
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Miranda is a Systems Engineer specializing in cloud architecture and SRE with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems across companies like Hudson River Trading, Vonage and Facebook. He has led migrations to multi-account, multi-region AWS platforms, built global SMS and container orchestration infrastructures, and implemented DDoS mitigation and high-resilience practices for production services. A technical polyglot and mentor, he combines deep hands-on skills in Python, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes/Nomad and infrastructure-as-code with strong system administration roots from early Debian lab and university work. Daniel is an active open-source contributor—improving projects such as the FlexGet subtitle plugin and the AWS stacker orchestrator—showing attention to robustness, automation and documentation. Pragmatic and curious, he often focuses on subtle reliability improvements (auth execution contexts, error handling, PEP8 and logging fixes) that compound into large operational gains.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (37)
postgresql10
github10
back-end-development10
python10
elixir10
aws-lambda10
user-authentication10
authentication10
cloud-infrastructure10
database-administration10
poker10
scala10
aws-cloudformation10
ecto10
cloud-services10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/stacker
Aug 2016 - May 2019
An AWS CloudFormation Stack orchestrator/manager.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 commits, 21 PRs, 120 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel significantly contributed to the `stacker` repository by enhancing the functionality and documentation of the AWS Lambda hook. They implemented features to upload Lambda functions, including support for pre-built payloads and home-relative paths, and addressed issues related to empty payloads and error handling. Furthermore, the user corrected documentation typos and addressed PEP8 issues, improving the project's overall quality and usability. These changes focused on improving the project's automation capabilities within an AWS CloudFormation workflow.
aws-cloudformationpythoncloudformationdevops
jaliss/securesocial
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
A module that provides OAuth, OAuth2 and OpenID authentication for Play Framework applications
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on refactoring and improving the code related to authentication and execution contexts within the securesocial module. They introduced configurable execution contexts, addressing issues with hardcoded defaults and enhancing flexibility for Play Framework applications. Furthermore, the user made modifications to ActionBuilders and AuthenticatorStore, showing a focus on optimizing the core mechanics of user authentication within the application. These commits reveal a strong understanding of Play Framework's internal processes.
authenticationoauthopenidplayframework
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