Daniel Uber
Senior Software Engineer at Empirical Security
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Uber is a pragmatic senior software engineer and troubleshooter with 14 years of experience building, debugging, and refactoring backend systems—especially Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and MySQL environments. He specializes in diagnosing thorny production issues (from ad networks and charset/index mismatches to backup/integrity conflicts) and delivering practical fixes while explaining root causes. Comfortable across SRE and application roles, he’s improved performance, caching, and transaction correctness in open-source projects like Forem and at companies ranging from startups to security firms. He favors demonstrable correctness over cleverness, writes focused tests when unsure, and prefers working directly in editors and consoles rather than GUIs. Based in Chicago, he brings a methodical, forensic approach to legacy systems and integrations, and has a background in mathematics that informs his systematic problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at University of Illinois at ChicagoMathematics, Mathematics at Roosevelt University
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
21reputation
105reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (8)
ruby-rails10
rails10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
ruby10
caching9
performance-optimization9
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1040 reviews, 163 commits, 501 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily worked on back-end code, focusing on modifying moderator actions, article scoring, and user authentication. They updated the article scoring mechanism to correctly handle user moderation and reaction points. The user also implemented changes to improve performance by caching and memoizing results and fixed a bug related to user sponsorships and database transactions. They modified the API responses to include reading time for articles and made the code more efficient.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
djuber/notes
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
sync from gitbook notes
Contributions:4 PRs, 222 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
notessyncgitbookgit-gui
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