Daniel Parker
Product Engineer at PostHog
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolDaniel Parker is a cloud-focused software engineer and serial founder with 12 years of experience building serverless, product-first solutions and technical accelerators that help teams ship faster. Based in Barcelona, he has bridged hands-on engineering and team leadership across roles from GitLab and Vendia to founding Pocket Foundry and co-founding UpTurtle, where he’s democratizing hosting. He combines full-stack TypeScript proficiency with SRE and DevOps practice, and has contributed improved typings for popular libraries (jsonwebtoken) in the widely used DefinitelyTyped repo. Known for turning complex integrations and operational challenges into repeatable product patterns, he brings a pragmatic mix of product sensibility and engineering craft to fast-moving teams.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Software Engineering at Swinburne University of TechnologyVictorian Certificate of Education Music, Victorian Certificate of Education Music at Christian College Geelong
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
type-definition10
jsonwebtoken10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
typescript-definitions9
typesc9
type-system9
html6
screen-resolution6
macos6
nsimage6
angularjs6
css6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `jsonwebtoken` type definition files within the DefinitelyTyped repository. They focused on improving the type definitions, fixing existing issues, and updating the library's versioning. Their work included allowing a function as the `secretOrPublicKey` argument, better typing to replace 'Function', enabling linting rules and fixing issues, reflecting a strong understanding of TypeScript and the JSON Web Token library.
typescriptdefinitiondtstypingstypescript-definitions
rlgod/danielparker.com.au-wordpress
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 4 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 months
wordpressgit-repositorywordpress-pluginlayout
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