Software Engineer
Interchange Development
Database Development

Daniel is an expert Interchange consultant. He has over five years of experience with Postgres, Perl, Linux, MySQL, Apache, bash, C, and Java. He has worked on web sites for Chevron, The Paper Zone, and dozens of Internet pure-plays.

Recent Projects

National Geographic Movie Voyager - Significant performance optimization.

Cool Tech PC - Custom computer configurator, integrated with accounting and shipping software, optimized search and cart performance.

Rep-Pharm Online Order System - New order system, includes a lightning fast search with complex business logic rules, while handling thousands of queries per second. Full featured integration with custom ERP system.

Previous Experience

In 1995, started an independent consulting firm to develop database-backed web sites. Siezing an opportunity to learn new technology, he took a position at Cyclone Computer Systems in 1998, where he first picked up Interchange and Postgres. In 2001, Daniel founded Kavod Technologies, Inc. to specialize in e-commerce solutions.

In five great years at Kavod, he completed dozens of successful web sites and built an array of ancillary software, including advanced shipping integration software such as Business::Shipping; featureful promotion systems that handle sales, discounts, coupons and more; modular item configuration software such as the computer customizer; and an ERP integrator that synchronizes denormalized legacy data files with modern 3NF databases in seconds.

Special Skills

Clustering: Implemented end-to-end load-balanced Interchange clusters with shared session storage.

Integration: MAS90, QuickBooks, EDI, WorldShip, and two legacy ERP applications integrated with Interchange.

Postgres-backed web sites with finely-tuned data models, featureful queries, and sub-millisecond execution.

Personal

Daniel loves his profession. Tuning software for maximum performance, watching a full battery of automated tests complete successfully, and collaborating with others on open source software are just some of the things that he enjoys doing every workday.

Living in beautiful Vancouver, Washington with his wife and baby, he enjoys history, astronomy, photography and combinations of the three, such as astrophotography. Speaks fluent Spanish and has enjoyed running Linux on his computers since kernel 1.9 in 1996.