Daniel Wilches
Principal Software Engineer at DefenseStorm
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel Wilches is a Principal Software Engineer based in Toronto with two decades of hands-on experience and over a decade in senior roles building backend and frontend systems. He has deep expertise in Java, C++, Python and TypeScript/Angular and a strong operational footing in AWS, Terraform, PostgreSQL and CI/CD tooling, routinely owning distributed systems and infrastructure automation. His career spans banking-grade SOA and ETL work to founding roles and modern cloud-native development at DefenseStorm, showing comfort across high-assurance and fast-moving startup environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic performance and memory optimizations, complex debugging, and end-to-end delivery of reliable services. A dual master’s in computer science underpins his engineering rigor and his background includes uncommon experience with Erlang and ISO8583/payment integrations.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of WyomingBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Universidad del Valle (CO)Universidad de los Andes
Spanish, English, French
Stackoverflow
22,411reputation
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360answers
78questions
angular
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npm
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versioning
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makefile
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java
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git
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
npm-package10
e2e10
react-testing-library10
api10
jpa10
nodejs10
sql-builder10
hardware10
sql-formatter10
password-manager10
validate10
web-performance10
docker-container10
plsql10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dwilches/Ardity
Aug 2016 - Oct 2021
Assets for integrating Arduino and Unity (or Unity and any hardware that communicates over a COM port)
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 35 commits in 5 years 2 months
com-portcommunicationarduinounityhardware
dwilches/CozmoWeather
Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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