Daniel Porteous
Software Engineer at Aptos Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Porteous is a software engineer with 11 years' experience building production-grade infrastructure and developer tooling, currently working on the Developer Platform at Aptos Labs in London. He moved from production engineering roles at Facebook into blockchain developer experience, contributing to APIs, SDKs and CLIs that help others build on Aptos. An active open-source contributor, Daniel has added node health checks and metrics to aptos-core and improved back-end tooling like a recreation.gov campsite checker and extensions to the Rust poem web framework. He prefers to avoid HFT/quant, web3 trading, and most fintech roles, focusing instead on platform work and developer-facing systems. Collected experience across large-scale sites and open-source projects gives him a pragmatic eye for observability, rate-limiting and API design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, Spanish
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
banool/recreation-gov-campsite-checker
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Scrapes the recreation.gov website to check for campsite availabilities 🏕🏕
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 33 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily worked on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of a campsite availability checker. They refactored the code, improved the README, and added the ability to tweet availability alerts using a Twitter API. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to support a new recreation.gov site, introduced rate limiting for the Twitter notifier, and integrated debug logging. The commits also cover enhancements such as improved output formatting and the introduction of a JSON output option.
govpythonrecreationscrapesscraper
aptos-labs/aptos-core
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1180 reviews, 252 commits, 902 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions focused on adding and improving code related to node health checking, primarily involving the addition of metrics and evaluators. They added a poem boilerplate for node health checkers and implemented the state sync evaluator, asserting the increasing state sync version within the tolerance of a baseline node. Further, they refactored and added support for multi-baseline configuration in the node checker's codebase.
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