Daniel Quinn
Lead Software Engineer at CFP Energy
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Quinn is a seasoned Lead Software Engineer based in Cambridge with over two decades of professional coding experience and 13 years in senior engineering roles. He leads cross-functional teams building data plumbing and internal billing systems, and has guided architecture and maintainability at companies from fintech startups to medtech and ISP-scale projects. A pragmatic advocate for Free Software, he contributes to open-source documentation (notably improving pyoidc's howto docs) and prefers GitLab as his primary repository. He combines hands-on implementation with advisory work—auditing medical data security for a women's fertility platform and training engineers in Linux and Docker. Known for tackling "unsolvable" problems with creative solutions, he balances product-minded delivery with strong security and maintainability practices. Outside work he continually prototypes nifty projects to expand his skills and reduce real-world friction.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
General Arts, General Arts at Simon Fraser UniversityRussia: from Lenin to Gorbachev, Russia: from Lenin to Gorbachev at Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityCertificate New Media, Certificate New Media at Vancouver Film School
English, Greek
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Github Skills (23)
restructuredtext10
python10
back-end-development10
document-management10
sphinx10
django10
rs10
rest-api10
documentation10
apidoc9
date-parsing9
api9
openid-connect8
rest-framework8
postgresql8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
CZ-NIC/pyoidc
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
A complete OpenID Connect implementation in Python
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on improving the documentation for the pyoidc library. Their commits involved fixing grammatical errors, updating links, and correcting references within the documentation files. They also addressed issues with the structure and formatting, ensuring that the documentation rendered correctly and aligned with best practices. The changes were concentrated on the "howto" section, indicating a focus on providing clear and accurate usage examples.
openidpythonoidcauthenticationoauth2
wzhd/Gentoo-Surface-Pro-3
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:54 commits in 9 months
placegentoosurfaceget-all
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