Nial Daly
Senior Software Engineer at Arm
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNial Daly is a Senior Software Engineer based in Manchester with eight years' experience building cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems and platform engineering for startups and large enterprises. He has a strong track record across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and has moved from hands-on backend and SRE work to founding a zero-trust workload identity startup before returning to senior engineering at Arm. An active open-source contributor, he improved compatibility and robustness in well-used projects like Terratest and enhanced MFA handling in the Auth0 Python SDK—practical work that speaks to his focus on reliability and security. Comfortable across DevOps, backend services and infrastructure-as-code, Nial combines product-minded engineering with operational rigor and a knack for making cross-version tools work seamlessly.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Development, MSc Software Development at Queen's University Belfast
English
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Github Skills (20)
docker10
python10
testing10
docker-compose10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
go10
exception-handling10
devops10
aws9
sdk9
rest-api8
dx8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 29 days
Contributions summary:Nial primarily focused on updating the Docker Compose configuration within the Terratest framework. They modified the command used for Docker Compose, addressing compatibility with different versions. Furthermore, the user integrated checks for Docker Compose V2, ensuring backward compatibility, and refactored the related logic to improve the handling of various Docker Compose versions. They also made improvements to the AWS VPC module, adding the ability to find and retrieve default subnet IDs and enhancing the existing methods.
golangdevopstestinggo-libraryinfrastructure
auth0/auth0-python
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Auth0 SDK for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 15 days
Contributions summary:Nial's contributions primarily focused on modifying the `auth0-python` SDK to handle Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) scenarios. They added error handling for the `mfa_required` error code and updated exception handling to include the MFA token within the `Auth0Error` class. Furthermore, the user made iterative changes, including reverting some logic, while refactoring code and updating tests related to MFA functionality.
pythonauthenticationdx-sdksdkauth0-sdk
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