Daniele Faraglia
Self Employed
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDaniele Faraglia is a UK‑based software engineer with 14 years of professional experience building and maintaining web-native Python applications. Self-employed and located in Brighton, he focuses on backend engineering, contributing to well-known open-source projects such as faker and django-environ where he added parsing features, Unix socket support, and improved test coverage. Daniele blends hands-on code improvements with testing and DevOps sensibilities—upgrading build environments, Vagrant setups, and cross-version Django compatibility—to keep projects maintainable and dependable. He has a knack for pragmatic refactors and tooling that smooth developer experience, exemplified by adding a Python provider to Faker and integrating .env loading into django-configurations. Colleagues can rely on him for steady, quality-driven contributions that quietly lift project reliability and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
test-data10
python10
django10
testing10
configuration-management10
environment-variables10
fakerjs10
faker10
appsettings10
synthetic-data10
test-automation10
redis9
caching9
databases9
devops9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
joke2k/django-environ
Apr 2013 - Jul 2020
Django-environ allows you to utilize 12factor inspired environment variables to configure your Django application.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 6 reviews, 182 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniele primarily contributed to the `django-environ` library by adding features and fixing bugs related to environment variable parsing and configuration. Their work included implementing advanced float parsing, supporting multiple redis cache locations, and adding support for PostgreSQL unix domain socket paths. They also refactored code to utilize instance methods and improved test coverage for the added functionalities.
environment-variablespythontwelve-factordjango12factor
joke2k/faker
Nov 2012 - Jan 2021
Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 194 commits, 12 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniele contributed significantly to the Faker library by introducing and enhancing the Python provider. Their work involved refactoring code, adding a help method, and adding the Python provider with methods for generating various Python data types. The user's contributions included writing tests, small fixes to existing providers (File, Lorem, Address) and general code quality improvements for the testing infrastructure and the faker package.
pythontest-datatestingdummy-datadataset
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