Daniel Overton
Director at Galata Software
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Overton is a director and seasoned full-stack engineer with 14 years of experience building test-driven web applications, APIs and cloud-native solutions across JavaScript and .NET ecosystems. He combines hands-on expertise in modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Next.js) with backend and DevOps skills—authoring CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and Lambdas on AWS and Azure. Daniel has led teams and delivery processes in agile environments, regularly bridging product, QA and operations to ship reliable systems at pace. A pragmatic contributor to open source, he has improved core date/time handling in the popular Luxon library, demonstrating attention to correctness and performance. Based in Glasgow, he’s equally comfortable architecting microservices or getting into the weeds of debugging live production issues.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at University of LeedsCIPFA Professional Qualification Public Sector Accountancy, CIPFA Professional Qualification Public Sector Accountancy at Leeds Beckett UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Russian Central and Eastern European Studies, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Russian Central and Eastern European Studies at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (9)
datetime10
javascript10
dates10
datetimes10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
intl7
timezone7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moment/luxon
Feb 2021 - May 2021
⏱ A library for working with dates and times in JS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Luxon library's core functionality, focusing on date and time manipulation. Their work included fixing bugs related to date formatting, particularly for negative years within the IsoDate format. The user also improved code quality by making English Info lists immutable. Further contributions involved optimizing interval calculations, and addressing negative millisecond handling. Benchmarking was also added.
datetimedates-and-timescalendartimeagotimes
dan-overton/luxon
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
⏱ A library for working with dates and times in JS
Contributions:10 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
datetimedates-and-timescalendarjavascripttimes
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