Daniel Sanchez
Senior Software Engineer at Zendesk
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolDaniel Sanchez is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and modernizing web applications across payments, media, and education domains, currently based in Copenhagen. He has progressed from full-stack roles to leadership as Head of Cross Border Payments Development and now contributes at Zendesk, blending hands-on development with architectural oversight. Daniel has deep expertise in EmberJS, Ruby on Rails, and test-driven refactors—evidenced by his contributions modernizing Ember Data integration tests to async/await. He combines a research-minded background in educational informatics with practical product delivery, often improving code quality and test coverage in legacy codebases. Known for pragmatic refactors that reduce technical debt, he brings both breadth across front-end and back-end stacks and a knack for making systems more reliable and maintainable.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree in Computer Science Educational Informatics, Master degree in Computer Science Educational Informatics at Universidad EAFIT
Spanish, English, bokmål, noruego
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Github Skills (11)
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ember-data10
typescripts10
ember10
typescript-types10
testing10
dataframe9
emberjs6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emberjs/data
Oct 2019 - May 2021
WarpDrive is a lightweight data library for web apps — universal, typed, reactive, and ready to scale.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily refactored and improved existing integration tests within the Ember Data library. Their work focused on removing the use of the run loop and adopting async/await syntax, indicating a focus on modernizing the codebase. They addressed issues related to the `findRecord`, `findAll`, and `deleteRecord` functions, and performed cleanups in different modules. These changes demonstrate a commitment to improving code quality and test reliability.
rxjsfunctional-programmingjavascriptdata-librarydeclarative
esbanarango/ember-place-autocomplete
Oct 2015 - May 2021
Ember cli addon to provide a component that uses Google Places API to autocomplete place information when people write their address
Contributions:9 releases, 117 commits, 84 PRs in 5 years 8 months
ember-cliember-addonapiplaceplace-autocomplete
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