Daniel Shields
Software Engineer at Elven.dev
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDaniel Shields is a full-stack software engineer and entrepreneur based in Cape Town with 11 years of experience building web applications and startups. He combines formal training in computer science and a recent MA in Entrepreneurship with hands-on roles from multimedia development to co-founding Plotty and leading engineering at Elven.dev. Daniel has modernised multi-year web archives and localisation projects, demonstrating attention to scalable content architectures and internationalisation. He brings a designer’s eye to engineering, pairing front-end polish with solid back-end delivery. Outside tech he studies life coaching, NLP and transpersonal psychology, which he applies to team leadership and product strategy. This blend of technical depth, startup experience and coaching-informed leadership makes him effective at turning ambiguous problems into user-centered solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of HertfordshireMaster's degree, Entrepreneurship, Master's degree, Entrepreneurship at Falmouth UniversityUniversity of Pretoria
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Github Skills (172)
cms10
composer10
fuzzy-search10
laravel10
vercel-serverless-functions10
flat-file10
statamic10
meilisearch10
api-rest10
content-management-system10
full-text-search10
documentation10
laravel-package10
php10
driver10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
statamic-rad-pack/meilisearch
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Meilisearch search driver for Statamic.
Contributions:8 releases, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 5 months
drivermeilisearchstatamicstatamic-addon
tao/docs
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
Statamic 3 Beta: Docs & Site
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
statamicdocs-sitestatamic-3
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