Daniel Schep
Senior Software Development Engineer at onXmaps, Inc.
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Schep is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 15 years of experience building backend and DevOps-focused systems, currently driving engineering at onXmaps in Richmond, VA. He combines deep Python and Go expertise with practical serverless and cloud deployment skills, having contributed notable features to the Serverless Framework and authored a widely used serverless-python-requirements plugin. As a former Head of Engineering and long-time open-source maintainer, he bridges hands-on coding with leadership in product-focused teams. His work spans local invocation tooling, virtualenv integrations, Docker-based cross-compilation, and tooling for notifications and deployments—showing a knack for developer experience. Comfortable across startups and established teams, he brings systems thinking from mapping and geospatial domains to general platform reliability. Outside work he signals curiosity through projects that intersect maps, bikes, and automation, revealing a pragmatic inventor’s mindset.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of South Carolina
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (32)
docker10
python10
command-line-interface10
aws-lambda10
apple-push-notifications10
dockers10
push-notifications10
aws10
serverless-framework10
command-line10
pip10
cli10
apidoc9
api9
macos8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dschep/ntfy
Dec 2015 - May 2022
🖥️📱🔔 A utility for sending notifications, on demand and when commands finish.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 451 commits, 103 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's commits focused on the development of a utility for sending push notifications, with the core functionality being implemented in Python. Their initial work involved setting up basic notification functionality, including support for multiple backends such as Pushover and Pushbullet. The user subsequently introduced and refined the command-line interface to support subcommands and incorporated platform-specific integrations for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Further development included adding and refactoring options, and fixing potential deployment issues.
on-demandwindowslinuxpush-notificationssending-notifications
serverless/serverless-python-requirements
Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
⚡️🐍📦 Serverless plugin to bundle Python packages
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 381 commits, 157 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Daniel transformed a project from a WSGI plugin into a requirements management plugin for the Serverless framework. They added features for installing Python packages using pip and integrated options for Docker-based cross-compilation, and for creating a deployment package with zipped packages to manage AWS size limits. Further contributions involved implementing commands for managing requirements and integrating support for pipenv. The user also addressed various bugs and improved the overall usability and functionality of the plugin.
lambdapythonpipbundleaws-lambda
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