Daniel Swain
Software Engineer at Vesta
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Swain is a software engineer and leader with 16 years of experience and a PhD in applied mechanics, now focused on building scalable full-stack systems and big-data pipelines from Rochester, NY. He has repeatedly designed high-throughput distributed architectures—from RTB systems handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second to warehouse management platforms processing thousands of daily e-commerce fulfillments. At Pandora he led teams delivering charting infrastructure and ML pipelines for artist classification, and as a founding engineer at Tavoro he owned core engineering processes and end-to-end product delivery. Comfortable shifting between hands-on coding and technical leadership, he combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic product execution and a track record of moving complex data workflows into production.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Electrical Engineering, M.S., Electrical Engineering at Penn State UniversityPh.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
client-library10
docker-desktop10
matlab10
redisai10
scalable10
erlang10
functional-programming10
elixir10
redis-client9
visual-studio9
cpp9
unit-testing9
reinforcement-learning9
programming-language9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dantswain/kafka_ex
Sep 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:153 pushes, 65 branches, 2 tags in 3 years 9 months
client-librarykafkakafka-clientelixir
tentwentyfive/envosaurus
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
It helps you do stuff
Contributions:4 reviews, 15 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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