Daniel Shelton
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Menlo Security Inc.
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Shelton is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years designing and shipping complex systems across startups and large R&D teams, currently driving architecture and engineering at Menlo Security. He has led teams and whole-product engineering as CTO at multiple startups, building a cross-device game platform, a sports-prediction service with mobile apps, and system-level software from OS kernels to browsers. At Samsung he led V8 optimizations, improving JavaScript and ARM JIT performance, and his open-source contributions include robustness work on the widely used Puma Ruby web server. A proven inventor, he holds multiple patents spanning DRM, cryptography and binary-portable distribution, reflecting a knack for marrying low-level systems thinking with product-facing features. Based in the Greater Reading Area, he combines hands-on coding across C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby/Node with architecture-level leadership in distributed and performance-critical systems.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic and Computer Engineering, Computer software, computer hardware, electronics, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Computer software, computer hardware, electronics at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (5)
rack10
server10
multithreading10
ruby10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
puma/puma
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Puma web server's core functionality. Their work included implementing and modifying worker shutdown hooks, configuring timeouts, and handling thread pool behavior to improve robustness and control. They also made minor adjustments to the codebase, such as fixing whitespace and integrating upstream changes, indicating a focus on overall project maintenance and stability. These contributions reveal a solid understanding of the server's internal architecture and its operational aspects.
multithreadingweb-serverrackrubyparallelism
ably/ably-js
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Javascript, Node, Typescript, React, React Native client library SDK for Ably realtime messaging service
Contributions:112 commits in 1 month
realtimetypescript-react-nativeclient-libraryjavascriptnode-typescript
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