Daniel De Aguiar
Principal Engineer at Nubank
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel De Aguiar is a Principal Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience currently shaping engineering strategy at Nubank from Miami. He specializes in pragmatic, resilient system design on the JVM and is a long-time proponent of functional programming with Clojure, applying it across domains from healthcare to e-commerce. Daniel blends hands-on architecture and team leadership—former Director of Engineering and interim CTO roles—with a consulting background at Cognitect and his own firms, guiding modernization and agile adoption. He contributes to open-source projects like Pedestal, improving documentation and practical examples that help teams adopt secure, maintainable server-side patterns. Trained as a scientist (Ph.D. level) he brings an evidence-driven, experimental approach to software delivery and system evolution. Colleagues rely on him to translate shifting business needs into modifiable, production-hardened platforms.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Genetics, Ph.D. Genetics at Harvard University
Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
clojure10
pedestal10
clojure-cli10
leiningen9
documentation8
testing7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pedestal/pedestal
Apr 2013 - Jul 2022
The Pedestal Server-side Libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 17 reviews, 143 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel made several spelling, grammar, and documentation corrections to the project's template files, enhancing code readability and maintainability. They removed a dependency on the Leiningen marginalia plugin and excluded the 'docs' directory from all libraries. The user also fixed a misspelling in a type hint within the codebase. Additionally, the user added a basic authentication sample using Buddy Auth and updated the project's dependencies.
server-sidepedestalclojure
pedestal/pedestal-docs
Oct 2016 - Jan 2022
Documentation for Pedestal.
Contributions:4 reviews, 91 commits, 40 PRs in 5 years 3 months
pedestal
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