Daniel Summers is a seasoned software leader and founder, serving as Owner of Bit Badger Solutions, where he has built web applications, blogs, and hosting services since 2002. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise (C#, VB.NET, F#, ASP.NET, .NET Core, JavaScript, Vue.js, PHP) with a talent for mentoring and delivering reliable teams and projects. His experience spans large-scale, mission-critical work—from reverse-engineering and modernizing an ASP.NET MVC system in the US Air Force to driving web platform improvements and open-source contributions. In open source, he’s contributed as a full-stack developer on projects like htmx site migrations and as a backend developer and QA engineer for Suave's F# web framework, focusing on logging, validation, tests, and documentation. Based in Gulfport, Mississippi, he holds a BS in Computer Science from Grantham University and brings a pragmatic, ROI-minded approach to software delivery. He demonstrates uncommon breadth—from COBOL to modern .NET and front-end JavaScript—reflecting a track record of turning complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Grantham University
Suave is a simple web development F# library providing a lightweight web server and a set of combinators to manipulate route flow and task composition.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 35 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the backend logic and testing of the Suave web framework, focusing on logging functionality and server key validation. They implemented and tested changes related to logging, ensuring verbose, debug, info, warn, error and fatal messages are correctly logged. Additionally, the user validated server key lengths and functionality. The user also added documentation and examples and integrated code from remote branches.
Contributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Daniel's commits primarily involve migrating content and updating the structure of a website built with Zola. They worked on moving content to a Hugo directory initially, then refactored the website for Zola by creating a new theme and migrating essays, extensions, and other content. Further commits focused on integrating internal links, generating a dynamic talk page, and syncing content with the 1.8.6 release.
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