Daniel Snider
Software Engineer at Platform.sh
Jacksonville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Snider is a pragmatic software engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience building reliable, secure systems for developer-focused platforms, currently helping shape Platform.sh's core engineering and documentation. He brings a rare mix of security expertise and backend craftsmanship—having driven PCI & SOC 2 efforts, performed pentests, and implemented GPG-based hardening for the Tor Browser Launcher—while shipping production Python and Go services. Comfortable across Linux, containers, Redis and SQLAlchemy, he has contributed meaningful backend features to the popular atlassian-python-api (Jira/Confluence) and built integrations for Slack and Jira. Daniel pairs mentoring and customer-facing support experience with investigative OSINT work, reflecting both operational empathy and a practical security mindset.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
jira10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
confluence10
security10
api10
rest-api10
wrapper10
encryption10
documentation8
subprocess8
curl6
clickhouse6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
torproject/torbrowser-launcher
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Securely and easily download, verify, install, and launch Tor Browser in Linux. This repository is a mirror of https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/torbrowser-launcher
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 36 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on enhancing the security of the Tor Browser Launcher by integrating the `gpgme` library for secure key import and signature verification. They refactored existing key import and verification functions to leverage `gpgme`, improving exception handling and overall robustness. The user also addressed potential security vulnerabilities by refreshing the GPG keyring, and using HKPS for key retrieval.
browserlinuxverifytor-browsertor
atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Atlassian Python REST API wrapper
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the backend of the `atlassian-python-api` repository, focusing on Jira and Confluence functionalities. They added issue link documentation, set parameters for plugins, and implemented new endpoints for project creation based on templates. Further, they worked on user search parameters, addressing logic and documentation updates, and refactored/added new methods for Confluence templates, specifically updating template methods and adding methods for creating, updating, and removing them.
pythonconfluencejira-service-deskapi-wrapperbamboo
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