Daniel West
Infrastructure Engineer at Razorblue Group
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel West is an Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience delivering reliable VMware-based private cloud platforms and award-winning customer service. At Razorblue Group he has progressed from frontline support to third-line engineering, mentoring colleagues, improving documentation, and managing major incidents within ITIL processes while consistently meeting SLAs. He blends operational discipline with a developer mindset—contributing backend fixes and unit tests to the well-regarded API Platform project to improve response headers and subresource routing. Known for identifying recurring case trends and implementing preventative systems, he combines technical troubleshooting with stakeholder communication and coaching. Based in the UK, Daniel brings a pragmatic, customer-focused approach to infrastructure reliability and automation.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Colne Primet High SchoolA Levels - Computing, Politics and Maths, A Levels - Computing, Politics and Maths at Nelson and Colne College
English
Github Skills (14)
php10
api-platform10
api10
symfony-bundle10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
testing9
rest9
caching9
graphql8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
hal7
hypermedia7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
api-platform/core
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022
The server component of API Platform: hypermedia and GraphQL APIs in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 27 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the API Platform core repository, focusing on enhancing functionality related to response headers and subresource operations. They implemented features to modify response headers, particularly cache-related ones, and added unit tests to ensure correct behavior. Additionally, the user worked on prefixing root resource route prefixes to sub-resources, improving the routing capabilities of the API.
json-ldapiapi-platformhypermediajsonapi
silverbackdan/symfony-docs
Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
The Symfony documentation
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlesymfony
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