Daniel Spencer
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Spencer is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient, production-ready systems for large-scale infrastructure and networking. Currently on Snowflake’s Traffic Team, he focuses on edge networking challenges, having transitioned from production engineering and SRE roles where he automated SSL management, improved observability for gRPC and legacy stacks, and authored Terraform modules for cloud services. His background spans C++ and Python systems work—from indexing enterprise content and interfacing with hardware to machine-learning-driven proteomics—and includes hands-on release engineering and on-call incident response. Comfortable across cloud, infra, and low-level libraries, he pairs strong technical breadth with pragmatic delivery and a knack for preventing outages before they reach customers.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at British School of BrusselsMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Brown UniversityMSci Chemistry with Molecular Physics, MSci Chemistry with Molecular Physics at Imperial College London
English
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Github Skills (52)
mass9
python9
shotgun9
x86-649
operating-system9
kernel9
rust8
mass-spectrometry8
linux8
mach8
bioinformatics8
bootloader7
adjustment7
proxy7
accelerator7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ikcgroup/pepfrag
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
A library for fast peptide fragment ion generation
Contributions:7 releases, 112 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 4 months
fragmentionpeptide
ikcgroup/rPTMValidation
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Validation of rare PTM obtained from mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics.
Contributions:1 release, 339 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 4 months
validationspectrometrymass-spectrometryptmbioinformatics
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