Danny Crasto
Staff Engineer at Portmind
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Crasto is a Staff Engineer based in Dubai with 15 years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud architectures and distributed systems. He led dubizzle’s transformation from a bare-metal monolith to a containerized, event-driven microservices platform processing over 100M messages per day, and now builds AI-centric document recognition services at Portmind. A hands-on engineer and manager, he combines daily coding with running SDLC, mentoring teams, and owning backend hiring and tech roadmaps. His background ranges from embedded C++ systems and computer vision research to modern Python/AWS microservices, giving him a rare full-stack systems perspective. Colleagues rely on him for stability-first migrations and pragmatic refactors that improve performance and developer efficiency.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of Kentucky'A' Leves Science, 'A' Leves Science at Saint Mary's catholic high school
English
Github Skills (47)
detector10
ffmpeg9
webhooks9
data-collection9
youtube9
tesseract9
aws9
snowplow9
data-lineage9
server-side9
ocr-python8
cli8
data-warehouse8
python8
data-pipeline8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danwald/danwald.me
Feb 2016 - Sep 2024
website
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 8 years 8 months
danwald/async_download
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 29 pushes in 5 months
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