Hey I'm Daniel Vargas.
I'm interested in building cool software and algorithms for trading.

• 2025 — nowSoftware Engineer Intern· commonskunow+
  Toronto, ON · remote

  Joined the ecommerce team in January while taking two classes — ramping up on how a B2B platform this size actually fits together. Continuing this summer on the Enterprise team, which handles the platform's largest distributors: the accounts with the most data, the most integrations, and the most ways things can quietly go wrong at scale.

  ReactPHPMySQL
• 2025 — nowLead Developer· COMPSAnow+
  Queen's University · Kingston, ON

  Run backend and internal tools for the Computing Students' Association. Built the data layer for a room booking system now in production across the School of Computing, shipped a RAG chatbot that handles the bulk of routine student questions, and got the merch store online. The rest of the job is code review across a 10-person team and making architectural calls that hold up through annual exec turnover.

  Next.jsPostgreSQL
• Summer 2025Web Developer· Revolutionnaire+
  Toronto, ON

  Spent the summer as a Web Developer at a Forbes 30 Under 30 company. Built new client sites end-to-end, and made the existing ones faster — 40% off load times through query tuning, server config, and a CDN/caching pass — more findable via structured data and SEO work (25% lift in organic traffic), and easier for the team to maintain through segmented Mailchimp campaigns and real A/B testing.

  Next.jsWordPress

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