Daniel Hails
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Hails is a co-founder and seasoned software engineer with eight years of experience building AI-driven search and security tooling, combining hands-on engineering with product and customer focus. He led critical web-shell detection and response work at Netcraft—automating analysis of thousands of malware samples and driving >200k new detections—and has since steered research and engineering at Kular to automate complex, high-precision information searches and human-aligned RL systems. A contributor to notable open-source tooling (improving robustness and tests for the popular fd project), he brings practical backend and QA chops alongside leadership experience managing small engineering teams. Trained at Imperial College and part of the Imperial–MIT exchange, he pairs rigorous academic exposure to compilers and smart-contract safety with entrepreneurial grit from founding early ventures. Colleagues describe him as the kind of builder who turns messy real-world requirements into reliable, auditable systems while keeping customer relationships front and center.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Imperial-MIT Exchange Programme (2021-2022), Imperial-MIT Exchange Programme (2021-2022) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computing (International Programme of Study), Master of Engineering - MEng, Computing (International Programme of Study) at Imperial College LondonA Level, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Philosophy and Physics, A Level, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Philosophy and Physics at Haberdashers' Boys' School
French, English
Stackoverflow
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275reached
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Github Skills (9)
error-handling10
rust10
testing10
command-line9
cli9
filesystem8
regex7
python6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sharkdp/fd
May 2020 - May 2020
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to improving the robustness and reliability of the `fd` project. They addressed potential panic conditions by implementing checks for valid search paths and correcting error returns. Furthermore, the user enhanced the test suite, adding support for errors that don't immediately fail tests and including a new test case to handle missing directory scenarios.
golangregexrustfilesystemterminal
DJRHails/Topics-AI-Radiology
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:134 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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