Danish Dua
Member Of Technical Staff at Cohere
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDanish Dua is a distributed systems and infrastructure engineer with eight years of experience building production-grade backend systems and developer tooling. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cohere after co-founding an AI startup out of YC, he has shipped observability and core systems work at Databricks and contributed to large engineering teams at Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft. His open-source contributions span full‑stack and language tooling — from integrating Azure Functions and deployment workflows in Microsoft Web Template Studio to enhancing Go language server features in the golang/tools repo. Comfortable across cloud-native deployments and language server protocol internals, he brings a pragmatic blend of startup velocity and enterprise engineering rigor, and often surfaces subtle UX gains in developer-facing infra.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at University of Alberta
English
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
azure-functions10
language-server-protocol10
language-server10
go10
nodejs10
refactor9
typescript9
typescript-types9
arm-templates9
react9
typescripts9
refactoring9
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WebTemplateStudio
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Microsoft Web Template Studio quickly builds web applications using a wizard-based UI to turn your needs into a foundation of best patterns and practices
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:The user, Dandua98, primarily worked on implementing and integrating Azure Functions within the `microsoft/webtemplatestudio` repository. Their contributions included adding Node.js template functionality, zip file generation for deployments, and integrating the Azure Functions with the existing codebase. They also addressed and resolved merge conflicts, improved code linting, and refactored the code to enhance deployment and overall functionality.
templateweb-applicationsbuildsvscode-extensionfoundation
golang/tools
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
[mirror] Go Tools
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Danish contributed to the `golang/tools` repository by implementing and refactoring code related to language server protocol (LSP) features. Their work focused on enhancing the LSP capabilities, specifically for folding ranges within Go code, including select case and function call statements. They also worked on improving code quality, fixing bugs related to folding composite literals and completion prefix in comments. Furthermore, the user added call hierarchy functionality, which included adding command line tools and LSP scaffolding.
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