Daniel Parker
Principal Engineer at Vendia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDaniel Parker is a cloud-focused software engineer and serial founder with 12 years of experience building serverless, product-first solutions and technical accelerators that help teams ship faster. Based in Barcelona, he has bridged hands-on engineering and team leadership across roles from GitLab and Vendia to founding Pocket Foundry and co-founding UpTurtle, where he’s democratizing hosting. He combines full-stack TypeScript proficiency with SRE and DevOps practice, and has contributed improved typings for popular libraries (jsonwebtoken) in the widely used DefinitelyTyped repo. Known for turning complex integrations and operational challenges into repeatable product patterns, he brings a pragmatic mix of product sensibility and engineering craft to fast-moving teams.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Software Engineering at Swinburne University of TechnologyVictorian Certificate of Education, Music, English, Physics, Maths Methods and Further, Victorian Certificate of Education, Music, English, Physics, Maths Methods and Further at Christian College Geelong
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
83reputation
7kreached
6answers
3questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
type-definition10
jsonwebtoken10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
typescript-definitions9
typesc9
type-system9
html6
screen-resolution6
macos6
nsimage6
angularjs6
css6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `jsonwebtoken` type definition files within the DefinitelyTyped repository. They focused on improving the type definitions, fixing existing issues, and updating the library's versioning. Their work included allowing a function as the `secretOrPublicKey` argument, better typing to replace 'Function', enabling linting rules and fixing issues, reflecting a strong understanding of TypeScript and the JSON Web Token library.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
ACloudGuru/serverless-plugin-cloudwatch-sumologic
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Plugin which auto-subscribes a log delivery lambda function to lambda log groups created by serverless
Contributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 months
groupslambda-functionserverless-applicationsserverlessaws-lambda
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.