Phil Daniels
phil@danielsdev.cloud | Windsor, Colorado
Full Stack Software Engineer specializing in Scalable Micro-services, Cloud First Designs,
and Front End Excellence
Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
May 2024 - Present, Windsor, CO
- Senior, Fullstack Engineer for Microsoft Power Automate (https://aka.ms/powerautomate) a globally distributed automation platform with ~12 million monthly active users, and tens of billions customer automation runs / per month. Tools and tech used every day include React, .NET, and Azure.
- Developed AI Driven features utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT 4.0 to enhance user productivity.
- Delivered platform Administration/Governance enhancements, increasing sales and adoption by Fortune 500 customers.
- Crafted integrations with Microsoft Flagship Apps, such as Copilot, Teams, SharePoint, Dataverse and many others, enabling enhanced productivity and user satisfaction for first party experiences
- Implemented system observability and proactive monitoring of critical customer scenarios and features, reducing customer support tickets and increasing customer satisfaction by actively monitoring SLA.
- Contributed to open-source repositories utilized by product
- Resolved Livesite production issues for customers, maintaining a 99.9% SLA
Senior Software Engineer, Ensemble Health Partners
May 2023 - April 2024, Windsor, CO
- I was a Fullstack Engineer, Leader, and Decision maker for the Platform Engineering team; tools and tech used every day include Terraform, Typescript, React, .NET, and Go, hosted in AWS and Azure.
- Launched a React based Micro-frontend hosting solution for Ensemble applications. Reduced technical debt by collapsing multiple applications into a single platform, increasing user productivity and improving application change time to market. Leveraged Terraform, React, Go, and Cloud Storage. Decreased frontend hosting costs for organization by 30%.
- Designed and Developed a GraphQL based user and identity management platform, using Next.JS, Serverless Functions, and MongoDB; integrated with Ensemble’s Identity as a Service provider. Pattern implemented organization wide and leveraged by Stargate. Accelerated launch of new applications.
Senior Software Developer, UL Solutions
Feb 2017 - May 2023, Laramie, WY
- Technical Leader, Mentor, and Pull Request Reviewer for an ecosystem of applications containing 3 Agile teams.
- Led refactoring of existing On-Prem Monolith into Micro-Service Architecture, using Docker and Kubernetes. Collaborated with Partner teams (DevOps/SRE) to decrease operational, hosting, and development costs by 400k/year
- Developed mobile application and PWA using React Native and Firebase, increasing staff productivity 50%
Skills
Languages
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- C#
- SQL
- Rust
- Go
Frameworks
- React
- React Native
- Next.js
- Astro.js
- Angular
- Node
- .NET
Tools
- Azure
- AWS
- Firebase
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Azure Pipelines
- Github Actions
- Azure DevOps
- VS Code
Libraries
- Mocha
- Jest
- Chai
- Express.js
- Tailwind
- Redux
- GraphQL
- Playwright
- Jotai
- XUnit
- Entity Framework
Education
B.S. Computer Science, University of Wyoming
2012 - 2016, Laramie, WY
Certifications