Daniel Sokolowski
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Sokolowski is an applied scientist with nine years of industry and academic experience blending software engineering research and production-grade reliability for cloud infrastructure. He focuses on automated reasoning and safe Infrastructure as Code (IaC), now applied at AWS after PhD research and publications at top venues like ICSE, ESEC/FSE, OOPSLA and TSE. Daniel pairs hands-on engineering—contributing testability improvements to the prominent Pulumi IaC SDK—with a systems view that treats organizational processes as first-class components of reliability. Comfortable in interdisciplinary teams, he combines an agile, results-oriented mindset with a willingness to challenge norms to drive continuous improvement. Based in New York, he brings both startup CTO experience and enterprise practice to building auditable, scalable infrastructure tooling.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Science, summa cum laude, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Science, summa cum laude at Universität St.Gallen (HSG)Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Information Technology at DHBW MannheimTechnischen Universität DarmstadtAbitur, Abitur at Oberstufengymnasium Schloss HansenbergIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
German, English
Github Skills (16)
typescript10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
testing10
infrastructure-as-code9
cicd7
azure6
cloud-computing6
microsoft-azure6
aws6
kubernetes-pods5
kubernetes5
go4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/pulumi
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure within the Pulumi Node.js SDK. Their contributions include implementing asynchronous mock support for testing, refactoring existing mock tests, and adding new testing scenarios. They also worked on related documentation improvements. These changes suggest a focus on improving the quality and testability of the SDK, particularly within the Node.js runtime environment.
infrastructure-as-codeprogramming-languagepulumiserverlesscontainers
prg-grp/website
Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
Official webpage of the Programming Group on https://programming-group.com
Contributions:1 review, 123 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 9 months
webpage
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