Ivan Daka
Lead Software Engineer at Arkis
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Daka is a Lead Software Engineer based in Dubai with over 10 years of experience building full-stack, high-performance systems across Web3, animation, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS. He architects scalable microservices and real-time systems using Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, React, and has deep experience with Postgres, MongoDB and cloud-native patterns. Ivan has led and grown engineering teams, driven migrations from monoliths to microservices, and applied cryptography and safe data transfer techniques for undercollateralized DeFi products. His background includes pushing performance boundaries at DreamWorks with WebGL/WebAssembly and integrating AI/ML to automate animation workflows—an uncommon crossover of entertainment tech and backend architecture. Comfortable working across regulated domains, he’s navigated GDPR/HIPAA and FDA/CE considerations while integrating blockchain for traceability in healthcare. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates complex technical trade-offs into reliable, production-grade solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics at National Aviation University
Github Skills (8)
editable8
server-side8
grids7
react6
validations5
javascript5
react-components4
ui-components3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
JohnDaka/uikernel
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
UIKernel is a comprehensive React.js UI library for building forms, editable grids and reports with drilldowns and filters, based on simple unified record model with client-side and server-side validations and data bindings.
Contributions:16 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
react-jsserver-sidereact-componentsreactjsui-components
JohnDaka/react-ts-quickstart
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
React with Typescript QuickStart
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 4 days
reacttypescript
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