Daniel Posthuma
Senior Software Engineer at Consensys
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Posthuma is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency systems in Go, C, C++, and Lisp, currently contributing to Consensys. He has architected and optimized real-time bidding platforms handling hundreds of thousands of RPS with sub-50ms P99s, implemented lock-free streaming algorithms, and cut compute and cloud costs through profiling and storage/migration choices. Comfortable across backend stacks and cloud-native tooling, he automates infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD (Docker, CloudBuild, Spinnaker) while instrumenting systems with Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana. His background in business and client-facing roles informs pragmatic trade-offs between performance, cost, and operational simplicity. A C++ Nanodegree and hands-on experience in both startups and distributed systems make him adept at squeezing efficiency from complex pipelines.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
C++ Nanodegree, C++ Nanodegree at UdacityOkemos High SchoolSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Tech ElevatorBachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Belmont UniversityBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at Lansing Community College
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Github Skills (77)
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acme8
golang8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dnjp/plan9-on-qemu
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
This is a guide for setting up a Plan 9 desktop environment using Qemu
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
settingplanqemudesktop-environmentdesktop
dnjp/wxchatbot
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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