Daniel Mita
Developer at The National Lottery Heritage Fund
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDaniel Mita is a pragmatic backend developer with 11 years’ experience, specialising in Perl and Raku while routinely applying Go, Elixir, Python and JS to solve production problems. He focuses on readable, secure and testable code, champions BDD and TDD practices, and has improved onboarding and developer productivity through Dev Containers, CI workflows and Docker optimisations. A mentor and syllabus author for Perl (and soon Raku), he’s recognised by mentees for boosting their proficiency and regularly contributes Raku solutions to community challenges. Daniel maintains notable open-source assets—such as the official rakudo-star Docker image and an asdf installer plugin—and has practical ops skills like managing a GPG/WKD-protected mail domain. Now based in London, he blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic process improvements to shrink costs, reduce technical debt and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Esperanto
Stackoverflow
512reputation
891reached
3answers
4questions
Github Skills (14)
raku10
solve10
solution10
algorithms9
strings8
text-manipulation8
date-manipulation7
datemath7
dates7
user-defined-function6
string-interpolation6
regex6
operator6
routines6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
May 2019 - Oct 2020
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 46 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributes solutions to "The Weekly Challenge" using the Raku programming language. The user implemented solutions for various challenges, showcasing proficiency in Raku and demonstrating understanding of algorithms and problem-solving. The user's contributions included code for challenges related to string manipulation, date calculations, and working with Scrabble tiles.
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m-dango/exercism-raku
Nov 2016 - Jul 2024
Exercism Exercises in Raku
Contributions:13 PRs, 1094 pushes, 924 branches in 7 years 10 months
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