Summary
Daniel Wagers is a pragmatic software engineer and consultant with a decade of experience solving hard problems across startups and large enterprises, from firmware security APIs to cloud-native Go platforms and high-throughput embedded systems. He blends hands-on systems programming (C, Go, Python) and DevOps for production at scale—working on projects that span AWS serverless pipelines, Kubernetes, Yocto-based embedded Linux, and petabyte-scale Hadoop clusters. Known for mentoring and lifting teams, he repeatedly turns intermittent, painful issues (deadlocks, connectivity, persistence) into stable, measurable systems. Comfortable in both product startups and complex enterprise environments, he moves between firmware, desktop VMs, and cloud services with equal fluency. A practical tinkerer who once built and maintained a 100+ node render cluster and authored lower-level C daemons for autonomous vehicles, he enjoys debugging the kinds of failures that make others hand off the keyboard. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he pairs strong technical breadth with a genuine focus on reducing friction for users and fellow engineers.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University