Daniel Watson
Software Engineer at DoorDash
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Watson is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in big data and distributed systems, currently building ingestion pipelines from Cassandra to Spark and Iceberg at DoorDash. He has a proven track record at scale—designing Netflix’s Casspactor to convert PBs of Cassandra backups into Iceberg tables (work that led to a patent) and replacing legacy metadata services with paved-path, API-compatible solutions. Daniel excels at performance tuning, migration from legacy code, and creating automation for reliable delivery—skills he applied across roles from GEICO’s Data Lakehouse control plane to keeping a shrinking startup’s legacy billing system operational. Comfortable across systems, DevOps, and data engineering, he also contributes build and CI improvements to well-known open-source projects like Netflix/metacat. Colocated in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with a knack for pragmatic, business-facing solutions.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (7)
release-management10
bash10
gradlew10
travis-ci10
build-automation10
cicd10
gradle10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/metacat
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 releases, 53 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on setting up and maintaining the build and deployment infrastructure for the project. This is evidenced by the addition of Travis CI build scripts, modifications to Gradle build files, and the creation of scripts for building and installing the project via Travis. They also addressed issues related to caching and release processes, indicating a focus on automating the software delivery pipeline.
Netflix/aegisthus
Aug 2014 - Jul 2019
Contributions:57 commits, 7 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 11 months
pipelinecassandrasqlbulk-datadata-pipeline
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