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I'm a Statistics and Computer Science student at the University of Toronto, drawn to the messy parts of distributed systems and the tools engineers actually live in. I'm currently at Intact Insurance, working on the backend of a distributed developer portal — chaos-engineering failure modes and building tooling that improves productivity and reliability for 300+ engineers. Before that, I built an internal developer platform from scratch at Enercare.

Open to opportunities·Toronto, ON

Tech Stack

Languages

TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Java
C
R
Bash
HTML5
CSS3

Frameworks & Libraries

React
Next.js
NestJS
Spring Boot
Express
Django
GraphQL
Prisma
Tailwind

Data, Infra & Tooling

Git
GitHub
Linux
Docker
Kubernetes
Kafka
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MySQL
SQLite
Prometheus
Grafana
Jenkins
Jira
Android Studio

Experience

2025 — 2026
2026
Jan – Apr

Software Developer Intern

Intact Insurance

Chaos-tested a distributed developer portal across 100+ workflows using LitmusChaos + LGTM stack, validating 99.9% resilience. Built a Copilot metrics pipeline with Kafka, MongoDB & GraphQL surfacing productivity signals across 300+ engineers.

LitmusChaosKafkaGraphQLMongoDBPythonMicrosoft Graph API
2025
May – Dec

Software Engineer Intern

Enercare

Shipped an internal Admin Portal consolidating tooling across 5 engineering teams. Reduced debugging time by 40% via user impersonation and end-to-end request tracing with OpenTelemetry. Secured access for 500+ IT staff through SSO + RBAC with NextAuth.js and Microsoft Entra ID.

Next.jsNestJSAzureOpenTelemetryNextAuth.js
2025
May – Dec

Software Developer

Google Developer Group UofT

Co-led a student platform for 500+ CS students unifying events, clubs, and dev teams. Implemented server-side RBAC with Firebase Auth and Admin SDK, cutting admin workload by 60% through Firestore-backed event management.

Next.jsFirebaseTypeScriptFirestoreCloud Functions

Projects

  • Broke BestiesEvent-driven expense-sharing platform handling 1,000+ workflow actions across payments, notifications, and debt reconciliation.
  • LociAI study tool that turns any content into navigable 3D memory palaces in under 30s, with a sub-2s voice/text Q&A layer.
  • PlanetzeAndroid app tracking 50+ daily carbon activities with Firebase, backed by 95% test coverage.
  • ML Network IntrusionCompared Logistic Regression, MLP, Random Forest, and XGBoost on UNSW-NB15 network traffic, using feature engineering and threshold tuning to push tree-based models to 0.8784 F1 and 0.9729 ROC-AUC.

Outside of Work

Away from the keyboard, I'm usually playing volleyball, basketball, or bouldering with friends, catching up on the latest seasonal anime, or trying out a new recipe on the weekend. Cooking is a new hobby I've been leaning into. When I'm in, I'm usually on Discord with friends, queuing up Valorant or Arc Raiders late into the night. I also love getting out of the city for a portage trip with friends whenever I can nothing better resets the brain like a canoe and no signal. And at home, I'm outnumbered by my five cats.

Daniel standing in front of a brick wall in a black coat.
Daniel in a wide-brim hat by the water.
Daniel in a white shirt standing on a dock by the lake.
Daniel with friends in the forest during a portage trip.
sking
Daniel posing with prop swords on a video call.
Daniel holding a pool cue while posing in sunglasses.
Toronto skyline at night with the moon above the lake.

Connect

Best reach is email. I'm also on GitHub and LinkedIn.

danielvenistan@gmail.com