Daniel Sinn
Software Engineer at PagerDuty
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Sinn is a software engineer based in Old Toronto with 12 years of experience building and hardening high-traffic web applications and backend systems. He has a strong PHP/Symfony background—shipping scalable, production-grade features, CI/CD pipelines, and BDD test suites—and has driven automation and code-quality practices across teams. At PagerDuty he’s focused on relentless tech-debt remediation and practical reliability, and his prior roles include on-call ops, DDoS mitigation, and performance tuning at scale. An active open-source contributor to phpBB, he’s comfortable diving into legacy codebases to add extensibility and bug fixes. Curious about math as a hobby, he pairs analytical problem-solving with pragmatic engineering to convert messy systems into maintainable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mary Ward Catholic Secondary SchoolBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of TorontoAlbert Campbell Collegiate Institute
English, Chinese, French, Italian
Github Skills (7)
php10
whiteboard10
event-handling10
bitboard10
forum10
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
phpbb/phpbb
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the phpBB open-source bulletin board software by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the core functionality of the forum software. The commits include changes to the message parser, MCP functionality (merging topics, post move sync), and core events. The user's work also involved adding events for extending the functionality of the system and addressing issues within the ACP interface.
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dsinn/advent-of-code
Dec 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:206 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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