Harold Daniel
Software Engineer at Blackbaud
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolHarold Daniel is a seasoned software engineer based in Austin with over 27 years in technology and 13 years focused on mission-critical intermodal transportation and higher education systems. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails and Elixir development with deep experience in systems administration, CI/CD, and high-availability operations, including 24/7 emergency support and health monitoring. As an engineering manager and service lead he has hired and grown teams, defined processes, and led SAML/Shibboleth/LDAP authentication integrations for enterprise clients. Comfortable across the full lifecycle—from building Rails apps and deployment automation to forensic investigations and customer-facing implementations—he brings a pragmatic, service-oriented mindset to software reliability. His background in both legacy platforms (AS/400, Unix) and modern tooling (Docker, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq) gives him unusual breadth for solving integration and uptime challenges.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BBA, Computer Information Systems, BBA, Computer Information Systems at Texas State University
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Github Skills (55)
avatar9
ldap9
ftp9
websocket9
curl9
scp9
command-line-tool8
sftp8
receiver8
http8
ftps8
smtp8
imap8
user-agent8
telnet7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hdaniel/pi_files
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
hdaniel/initials
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Use colorful SVGs as user avatars in any Ruby and Rails application
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 6 months
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