Jon Daniel
Staff Software Engineer at Render
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJon Daniel is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale backend and cloud infrastructure, currently leading platform work at Salesforce in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has deep expertise in provisioning and running stateful data products (Postgres, Redis, Kafka) on AWS, having overseen hundreds of thousands of databases and a petabyte-scale backup archive at Heroku. A pragmatic engineering leader, he initiated Trailhead’s GraphQL API to unify mobile and bot clients and routinely balances hands-on coding (Ruby, Go, C) with shaping team culture and operational reliability. Known for clean, reliable code and a dry self-deprecating wit, he thrives on rebooting systems, mentoring teams, and solving the messy problems that make cloud services resilient.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at PennWest Clarion
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Github Skills (59)
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heroku-cli10
pgbouncer10
heroku10
rustup9
similarity-search9
buildpack9
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api8
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rust-application8
postgresql8
ruby7
rest7
prose6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
binarycleric/dot-vim
Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:50 pushes in 4 years 11 months
binarycleric/benchmark_requires
Sep 2013 - Mar 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 8 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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