Daniel Smith
Staff Software Engineer at Qt Group
Selje, Vestland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Smith is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building developer-focused automation and QA tooling, currently shaping developer experience at Qt Group from Selje, Norway. He specializes in Python and Node.js automation, with practical exposure to Perl, Go, Jenkins, Gerrit, Postgres and time-series tooling, and has a track record of making complex infrastructure feel intuitive and invisible to developers. Daniel progressed from QA engineer to staff-level contributor by creating pragmatic, well-scoped projects that prioritize usability and documentation for teams. His background in technical support and customer-facing roles gives him a strong bias for clear communication, rapid incident resolution, and translating real-world needs into reliable automation. An unexpected strength is his film-production education, which complements his engineering work with storytelling instincts that improve documentation and internal tooling adoption.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Indiana University SoutheastBachelor of Science (BS), Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Science (BS), Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Full Sail University
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (105)
virtual-keyboard10
keyframe10
uart10
shader10
qt10
qtquick10
serial-port10
serial-communication10
monitoring9
graphic9
2d-vector9
wayland9
data-visualization9
dashboard9
websocket9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eskilblomfeldt/qmlbenchrunner
May 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
DanSoQt/python-gerrit-api
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Python wrapper for the Gerrit REST API with Qt Project extensions.
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 9 months
apipythonpython-wrapperextensionsrest
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