Danny Croft
Engineering Manager at commercetools
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDanny Croft is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and leading high-performing teams across observability, frontend platforms, and API tooling in Berlin. Currently shaping commercetools’ observability strategy, he blends hands-on technical experience—from serverless AWS and Go to React and GraphQL—with a talent for scaling teams and systems. His background includes senior leadership at Postman and Elastic and co-founding an eco-focused e-commerce startup where he ran AWS Lambda services, highlighting both product and operational instincts. Danny pairs an M.Eng. in Engineering Management with a pragmatic focus on reliability, cost visibility and developer experience, and often operates at the intersection of platform engineering and developer-facing observability.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng) Engineering Management, Master of Engineering (M.Eng) Engineering Management at University of Colorado BoulderBTEC National Extended Diploma Level 3 Information Technology, BTEC National Extended Diploma Level 3 Information Technology at Grŵp Colegau NPTC Group of Colleges
English, German
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Github Skills (48)
socket-io10
observability10
expressjs10
kibana10
simple-framework10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
redis9
dashboard9
nodejs9
amazon-certificate-manager9
monitoring8
feature-detection7
build-tools7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
metricio/metricio.github.io
Oct 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
dannycroft/dannycroft.github.io
Jan 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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