Daniel Sont
Senior Golang Engineer at QAD
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel Sont is a Senior Golang Engineer based in Ottawa with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems, developer tools, and cloud-native platforms. He combines deep Go expertise with SRE/DevOps experience across Postgres, Istio, Kafka, Kubernetes and monitoring stacks, and currently builds APIs in Go and AI agents in Python. A serial founder and maker, he launched Forky.io — a real-time collaborative mind-mapping app with classroom features and LLM-backed generation — showing his product instincts and focus on developer-friendly UX. His open-source contributions include refining date/time and timezone handling in the widely used tealeg/xlsx Go library, demonstrating attention to correctness and testing. Comfortable shifting between startup scrappiness and production-grade engineering, Daniel brings both systems-level rigor and a curiosity for ML/MLops and neural network design.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honours Computer Science Game Development, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honours Computer Science Game Development at Carleton University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
go10
testing9
docker6
flurry6
docker-compose6
container6
javascript6
sql6
eol6
hybrid-mobile-app6
mysql6
data-structures4
algorithm4
algorithms4
data-structure4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tealeg/xlsx
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Go library for reading and writing XLSX files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on enhancing the handling of date and time values within the Go library for XLSX file generation. They added options for more granular control when exporting dates and times, specifically regarding timezone handling. The contributions include refactoring the date/time export logic and including unit tests to ensure timezone calculations are correct. This work involved changes to both the core cell processing logic and associated test files.
goxlsxexcelspreadsheet
ds0nt/cs-mind-grind
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
My Solutions to Practice Algorithms and Data Structures Problems
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 5 months
data-structuredata-structures
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