Daniel Polito
CTO Partner at exlink.us
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Polito is a seasoned CTO and entrepreneur with 14+ years of hands-on PHP and full-stack experience, currently leading engineering and product initiatives across multiple ventures including exlink.us and Firework Web & Mobile. He started building websites and Flash in 2005, evolved into a prolific Laravel/Symfony contributor, and has meaningful open-source contributions to high-profile projects like the Laravel framework and Horizon. Comfortable from DevOps to product strategy, he has run teams, built developer tooling (kool.dev), and managed cloud production environments on AWS, Vagrant and Chef. Daniel combines pragmatic engineering with business acumen—having founded companies, scaled a 28-person agency, and shepherded new services from ideation to market—while still shipping code that improves other developers' lives.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnólogo de Banco de Dados, Tecnologia da Informação, Tecnólogo de Banco de Dados, Tecnologia da Informação at FATECBacharel em Ciência da Computação, Tecnologia da Informação, Bacharel em Ciência da Computação, Tecnologia da Informação at Anhanguera
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (37)
rails-i18n10
eloquent10
mysql10
scripting10
laravel-mix10
databases10
internationalization10
bash10
laravel10
queuing10
php10
ember-i18n10
command-line10
i18n-js10
task-queue10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/horizon
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
Dashboard and code-driven configuration for Laravel queues.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the Laravel Horizon project, focusing on features related to queue management and monitoring. Their commits include adding a status command for checking Horizon's state, modifying the dashboard's behavior, and implementing new balance strategies for worker processes. These changes enhance the functionality and operational capabilities of the Horizon dashboard.
queuesphpscheduled-tasksbeanstalklaravel-queues
laravel/framework
Dec 2015 - Apr 2019
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 22 PRs, 33 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Laravel framework, adding functionality and fixing bugs. They implemented a helper for dispatching jobs, added an alias for a queue failure interface, and implemented a "having" shortcut in the query builder. Furthermore, they fixed model binding issues and made changes related to Eloquent's find method, along with queue worker improvements regarding timeouts.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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