Hi! I'm Dani.

Work.

• Sep 2025 – Present

  Current

  Platform Engineer · Banking Circle

  I own the Kubernetes platform that hundreds of banking applications run on, and the Go tooling around it.

  • Run production Kubernetes across thousands of pods

    Keep the clusters stable and fast for the hundreds of critical applications that run on them.

  • Technical lead for the team's Go applications

    Set the coding standards for the team's Go services and guide their development.

  • Introduced chaos engineering to disaster recovery tests

    Added Chaos Mesh to "Single-Region Wednesday", the monthly disaster recovery test.

  • Built L2 validation tests for custom Kubernetes Operators

    Wrote Chainsaw tests that verify custom Operators and Custom Resource Definitions, which made deployments more reliable.

  • Built a CLI that upgrades Helm charts automatically

    Charts now upgrade without any changes from developers.

  KubernetesGoChaos MeshChainsawHelm

• Jan 2025 – Sep 2025

  Team Lead, Cloud Enterprise · Lionsbot International

  I started the Cloud Enterprise team and led it. The team connected cleaning robots to the lifts, doors and software in the buildings they clean.

  • Founded the Cloud Enterprise team

    Managed 2 engineers and designed integrations for the company's robotics and enterprise partners.

  • Owned integrations for more than 20 partners

    Connected the robots to building hardware such as lifts and doors, and to enterprise systems such as CCTV and cloud platforms.

  • Set up design sessions and mandatory peer review

    Mentored the engineers in hands-on design sessions and required a peer review on every change.

  GoMicroservicesAWSKubernetes

• Jun 2023 – Sep 2025

  Software Engineer · Lionsbot International

  Backend and platform work for a fleet of internet-connected cleaning robots. I built real-time pipelines, the robot-to-cloud sync and tools for the support team.

  93.9%→99.9%

  Backend uptime

  30s→~1s

  p90 latency

  30%→95%

  Robot sync success

  1–2 hrs→<10s

  Fault detection

  • Built a Go service that processes robot status in real time

    It handles 1,000 messages per second and raises and resolves critical error alerts on its own.

  • Designed a file retrieval system for remote robots

    Download requests wait in a queue until the robot is reachable, so they survive dropped connections.

  • Built a remote console for the support team

    Support staff can open a robot's OS terminal through node-pty and XTerm. The time to debug a robot issue fell from 4 to 5 minutes to under 30 seconds.

  • Fixed request timeouts on a critical backend service

    A misconfigured WebFlux thread pool caused the timeouts on a service the whole robot fleet depends on.

  • Rewrote the two-way sync between robots and the cloud

    The new Spring Boot version cut database load by 20× and sync time by 10×.

  GoSpring BootAWSWebFluxMQTT

• Jan 2022 – Jul 2022

  Software Engineer Intern · Fazz (Xfers)

  Backend work on the payments platform: flaky tests, an e-wallet integration and a failing third-party provider.

  −50%

  CircleCI test spend

  +30%

  Transaction success

  −50%

  Settlement time

  • Built automatic flaky test detection and alerts

    Halved the CircleCI cost of running tests, saving about US$5,000 a month.

  • Led the DANA e-wallet integration with Xfers

    Worked with DANA's engineers to connect its 115 million users to Xfers payments.

  • Fixed low transaction success with a third-party provider

    Investigated the failures and shipped a fix that raised the average success rate by 30% and halved settlement time.

  Ruby on RailsPostgresCircleCI