Daniel Searles
Staff Software Engineer at Semgrep
Spearfish, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Searles is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building web applications, cloud-native tooling, and IoT solutions across startups and established companies. He blends backend expertise (including Elixir and static analysis/security work) with machine learning and DevOps practices, having held senior roles at GitLab, HashiCorp, and Semgrep. Daniel has led platform and engineering teams as well as individual contributor work, shipping production systems for product companies and consultancies like Very and Treemo Labs. Based in Spearfish, South Dakota, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with a continual learning mindset and a taste for pragmatic, scalable architectures. Notably, his recent trajectory includes focused work on static analysis and code security at GitLab and Semgrep, reflecting a deepening specialization in developer-facing security tools.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Homeschool
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Github Skills (200)
devsecops10
slack-bot10
python10
pipenv10
bash10
asdf-vm10
terraform10
security10
ruby10
elvish10
multiple-languages10
heroku-deployment10
pip10
redux-store10
emacs10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
squaresurf/objective-octocat-notifications
Apr 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 28 commits, 9 pushes in 5 years 2 months
centernotificationsmacnotification-centerconnection
verypossible/spartan_loggly_rsyslog-cookbook
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Chef cookbook to configure rsyslog to send logs to Loggly
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 31 pushes in 7 months
logglyrsyslog
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