Daniel Schwartz
Software Development Manager at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Schwartz is a Software Development Manager in New York with 15 years of experience building secure, reliable systems and leading engineering teams at Amazon. With a strong research background from Columbia and hands-on roles in chaos engineering, backend services, and database engineering, he blends algorithmic rigor with practical security-minded software design. He has driven measurable operational improvements—such as accelerating deployment workflows and hardening cloud controls—and contributed to the popular Sequelize ORM by improving PostgreSQL connection handling and TypeScript definitions. Comfortable spanning research and production, he pairs a collector’s curiosity for logic puzzles and hiking with a taste for deep technical problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Columbia University
English
Github Skills (14)
sequel10
databases10
nodejs10
database-administration10
orm10
postgresql10
admin10
sql10
sequelizejs10
database10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sequelize/sequelize
May 2012 - Mar 2021
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB (v6), DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the backend of the Sequelize ORM, focusing on database connection and query generation. Their work involved modifying database connection strings, including protocol and port configurations, specifically for PostgreSQL. Additionally, they addressed query generation, altering table creation statements, and removing console statements, indicating a focus on database interaction and optimization. They also fixed a TypeScript definition.
feature-richormsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversequelize
harrystech/split_cacheable
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:25 commits, 3 comments in 4 months
splitcachecreation
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