Daniel Nicolai
Sr Principal Cloud Engineer at Oracle
Jacksboro, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Nicolai is a Sr. Principal Cloud Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating enterprise retail and cloud systems, currently at Oracle. He combines deep hands-on skills in VMware, enterprise architecture, and requirements analysis with a practical telecoms background from DeVry University. Daniel has a strong track record of improving large-scale retail applications and infrastructure, having progressed from systems engineering manager at MICROS-Retail to senior roles at Oracle. He is also an active open-source contributor to the Emacs ecosystem, improving the Emacs Application Framework and Spacemacs with packaging, PDF viewer enhancements, and usability-focused keybindings. Known for bridging sales-facing stakeholder needs with technical delivery, he excels at turning complex requirements into maintainable, deployable solutions. Based in Jacksboro, Tennessee, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to cloud engineering and enterprise software.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Telecommunications Management, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Telecommunications Management at DeVry University
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Github Skills (19)
python10
org-mode10
configuration-management10
browser10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
configuration-file10
configurations10
pdf-viewer9
pdf9
vim9
completions9
javascript7
text-extraction6
tkinter6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:117 reviews, 98 commits, 114 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to enhancing the Spacemacs configuration, a community-driven Emacs distribution, by implementing new keybindings and features. They focused on improving usability and functionality by adding new shortcuts for org-journal and pdf-mode. The user also addressed several bugs and improved existing features related to the completion and navigation layers.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
EAF, an extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 15 PRs, 32 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed significantly to the Emacs Application Framework (EAF) by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving the build process. Their work included adding support for Fedora package installation, integrating with Spacemacs, and enhancing the PDF viewer functionality. They also updated the build script and dependencies, showcasing a good understanding of system configuration and package management, along with Python and Emacs Lisp coding skills.
webviewactionscripttext-editingbrowserrss-reader
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