Daniel Sutton
Engineering Team Lead at Duel Tech
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Sutton is a Senior Backend Engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building resilient, scalable systems and leading engineering teams from Bath, UK. He has a strong track record migrating legacy services to cloud-native architectures, driving reliability improvements (notably raising scraping success rates from 50% to 99.5%) and implementing durable queuing and observability platforms. Equally comfortable in hands-on performance work—having delivered a 1000x improvement in a core autonomy algorithm—and in leadership roles, he has founded DevOps functions, grown teams, and run security and compliance programs. His background includes a PhD in Mathematics, which informs a rigorous, analytical approach to complex systems and algorithmic challenges. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative problem-solver who elevates delivery through empathy, mentorship, and a knack for making technical work legible to non-technical stakeholders.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics at University of Bath
Github Skills (62)
controller10
static-site-generator10
fastest10
compiler10
graphql10
frontend10
react10
gatsby10
ingress9
aws9
elastic9
gatsbyjs8
kubernetes8
ghost-blog7
netlify7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
d-cs/d-cs
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
little-wolf-studio/birkhoff-geodesic
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
An implementation of the Birkhoff Curve Shortening Method to determine geodesics in isotropic Riemannian manifolds
Contributions:5 PRs, 3 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
shorteninggeodesicsgeographymethodcurve
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