Daniel Gawne
Applications Programmer II
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDaniel Gawne is an Applications Programmer II with 8 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native education tools, currently driving deployment and maintenance of high-traffic learning systems at UCF. Self-taught and AWS Solutions Architect–certified, he architects scalable CI/CD and IaC-backed pipelines while running Canvas instances and an ecosystem of captioning, search/replace, and credentialing apps that together serve thousands monthly and millions of hits per month. He spans the full stack—Python (Flask, Django, DRF), JavaScript (React, Node, TypeScript), relational and NoSQL databases, Docker, and AWS services—while standardizing infrastructure patterns across multiple applications. Notably, he rewrote a legacy PHP conversion tool into an accessibility-first Python service and produces open-source documentation to help other institutions deploy Canvas, reflecting a mix of operational rigor and commitment to accessibility.
9 years of coding experience
Non-Degree Seeking, Computer Science, Non-Degree Seeking, Computer Science at University of HelsinkiBachelor's degree, Philosophy and Sociology, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy and Sociology at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (32)
javascript10
section-50810
css10
ruby10
multiple-users10
html10
nodejs10
web-development10
edtech10
wrapper10
ruby-on-rails10
canvas-lms9
widgets9
learning-management-system9
lti9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dgwn/aporia-frontend
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:7 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
dgwn/fso-blog-mongodb
Dec 2022 - Jun 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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