Daniel Blankson

Experience

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  University of Nottingham

  Sept 2017 - Dec 2021

  Student
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  Michael Wisher and Associates

  Nov 2018 - Jun 2019

  Bar tender/ Waiter
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  Accenture

  Sept 2022 - Sept 2024

  Hypercare Lead:Leading a team of developers allocating tasks and managing workloads effectively within the team.Ensuring production defects are promptly identified and resolved.Making sure fixed resources are documented in the runbook for deployment to production.Overseeing the deployment process to ensure it runs smoothly and efficiently.Compiling and adding relevant release notes for each deployment, ensuring clear communication of changes and updates.Primary technical contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status and addressing any concerns.Identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance team productivity and code quality. Show less AWS Developer:Collaborated on building a Contact Center platform utilizing Amazon Connect and various AWS services.Served as Scrum Master, creating the project’s Kanban board and leading over 100 daily standups.Authored the project’s coding standards documentation.Developed an AWS Connect Contact Center with dynamic prompts as a template for the development team.Established local lambda unit test methodology using JEST, including mocking AWS Services with the aws-sdk-client-mock library.Created 40+ business-critical Lambdas to loosely couple AWS services and integrate with 3rd party vendors.Utilized AWS services including AWS Connect, AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon CloudWatch. Show less

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Jun 2024 - Sept 2024

  • Software Engineering Analyst

    Dec 2022 - Sept 2024

  • Associate Software Engineer

    Sept 2022 - Dec 2022
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  Saltwater Games

  Sept 2024 - now

  Lead Backend Engineer

  Migrated a GCP backend to AWS, replacing Cloud Functions, Firestore collections, and Cloud Storage buckets with an API Gateway, AWS Lambda functions, DynamoDB tables, and S3 buckets, enabling a more cost-efficient, scalable, and maintainable architecture.Architected and implemented a modularized backend, refactoring thousands of lines of core business logic in JavaScript to improve stability, reduce errors, support multi-client frontends, and drive scalability. Supported 500k+ active users and processed tens of millions of user activity logs by designing efficient database queries and optimizing DynamoDB schemas for high-throughput, low-latency operations. Automated bot detection and removal for a 500k+ user database, leveraging DynamoDB and EC2-based Lambda execution. Enabled PowerBI analytics for 500k+ users by transforming DynamoDB data into S3 Parquet files with AWS Glue and Athena integration. Implemented Steam authentication for gameplay and sign-in using Steamworks APIs, leveraging OpenID for stateless OAuth and creating JWTs to support stateful sessions with access and refresh tokens Show less