Daniel Holmes
Senior Platform Engineer
Olathe, Kansas, United States
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Holmes is a Senior Platform Engineer with over 11 years of experience delivering scalable web applications, currently driving platform work at Articulate from Olathe, Kansas. He previously led backend and platform efforts at Nerdery, including guiding a large-scale web application with over 4 million unique logins in 2021 and mentoring teams across developers, architects, and operations. His hands-on expertise spans Node.js/TypeScript, Symfony/PHP, Apollo GraphQL, MySQL/AWS, and Kubernetes/EKS, with deep involvement in CI/CD pipelines and release orchestration. He thrives wearing multiple hats—from backend lead and squad mentor to systems administration support—bridging business needs with robust technical delivery. Daniel has a long track record across agencies and higher education, including Johnson County Community College and Sprint, illustrating a versatile, results-driven approach to building for the web. Based in the Kansas City area, he combines practical engineering depth with a collaborative mindset, always learning, evolving, and sharing knowledge with peers.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (44)
docker-image8
monitoring7
environment-variables7
aws-eventbridge7
vault7
php7
jquery7
docker7
hydrogen7
nodejs6
terraform6
terraform-provider6
ruby5
node-js5
javascript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kcphpug/talk-debugging-2015
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
kcphpug/mof
Jul 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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