Senior engineer at Disney StreamingMS CS · UT Austin · 4.0

Daniel Nofulla

Software engineer building for the web

Senior Engineer at Disney Streaming, working on the platforms behind Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. I build fast, reliable systems from frontend to infrastructure.

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6 domains · 24 moons in orbit40.71° N · 74.01° W
Years experience
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Projects
8
Programming languages
17
Spoken languages
7
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About

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Portrait of Daniel Nofulla
Daniel NofullaSenior Software EngineerDisney StreamingMS CS @ UT Austin

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Disney Streaming, where I work on the web experiences powering Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. Before that, I spent 3 years at Visa building enterprise AI platforms and data engineering solutions — ranked #1 on my team and top 5% company-wide.

I'm currently pursuing my MS in Computer Science at UT Austin (4.0 GPA) while working full-time. My interests go beyond web dev — I build game engines in C++, write CUDA kernels, and design custom virtual machines and assemblers.

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  • 3 yrsat Visaenterprise AI · data
  • Top 5%company-wide#1 on my team
  • 4.0GPAMS CS · UT Austin
  • 7languagesspoken · one moon each

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5 fields
Location
  • New York, USA
40.71° N · 74.01° W
Languages
  • Albanian
  • Greek
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Korean
7 spoken
Martial Arts
  • Muay Thai
  • MMA
  • Judo
  • Taekwondo Black Belt
black belt
Sports
  • Weightlifting
  • Soccer
2 active
Hobbies
  • Homelab
  • Hardware Dev
  • Anime
  • Esports
  • Cooking
  • Hiking
6 in orbit

Flight log · Jun 2022 – now · 3 missions

Experience

From single-handedly prototyping Visa’s internal GenAI platform to shipping the pages behind Disney+, Hulu and ESPN — 3 missions across 2 companies.

  1. 2025PresentDuration: in progress
    In flightNew York, United States · on-site

    Senior Software Engineer

    Disney Streaming

    • Build and maintain pages and components across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN using a custom CMS and rendering engine powered by Next.js within a large-scale monorepo.
    • Develop and extend unified packages that serve multiple streaming applications simultaneously, ensuring changes are compatible across a distributed system environment.
    • Build and configure custom Content Management System integrations, connecting content authoring workflows to the front-end rendering pipeline.
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    • Instrument applications with OpenTelemetry and Datadog for observability, monitoring, and analytics, and use that data to inform engineering and product decisions.
    • Implement SEO optimizations across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN pages to improve discoverability and search performance.
    • Drive UI/UX improvements across pages and components, collaborating on both new feature builds and iterations on existing experiences.
    • Participate in robust code review and QA cycles to maintain code quality across the platform.
    Payload
    • Next.js
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • CMS
    • OpenTelemetry
    • Datadog
    • SEO
    • Monorepo
  2. 2024Duration: 1 yr 1 mo
    Mission completeAustin, Texas, United States · on-site

    Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

    Visa, Inc▲ Promoted

    • Engineered the centralized Administrator Dashboard for managing all of Visa's Generative AI applications and configurations, owning the project from ideation through delivery.
    • Designed and built a Synthetic Data Generator from concept to production, leveraging GenAI to produce training data for internal AI models, including a Multi-class Classifier with over 250K parameters for topic classification.
    • Championed and led the initiative to bring the team's AI tools and HR functions to iOS and Android, driving the technical direction and navigating organizational constraints to deliver a modular mobile experience using .NET, C#, Flutter, and Dart.
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    • Led the creation of a Multi-class Classifier Support Vector Machine to optimize topic selection speed for Visa's GenAI chatbots, significantly improving response times using Python, scikit-learn, NumPy, and Pandas.
    • Maintained CI/CD pipelines and enforced code quality through pull requests, code reviews, and unit/integration/e2e testing.
    Payload
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • .NET
    • C#
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • scikit-learn
    • Flutter
    • Dart
    • GenAI
    • iOS
    • Android
  3. 2022Duration: 2 yrs 1 mo
    Mission completeAustin, Texas, United States · on-site

    Software Engineer - Full Stack

    Visa, Inc

    • Built the initial proof of concept for Visa's internal GenAI platform single-handedly, which evolved into a company-wide suite of AI-powered tools adopted by thousands of employees across the organization.
    • Owned and maintained the AI platform's core repository as the de facto technical owner, guiding the project's architecture as the team scaled around it.
    • Developed a Data Validation Pipeline Orchestrator and Business Dashboard serving over 10 data pipelines with millions of data points each.
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    • Spearheaded a Project Setup Automation Framework that streamlined the creation of new projects, reducing setup overhead significantly across engineering teams.
    • Led the deprecation and secure data archival of legacy corporate applications, including independently decommissioning Visa's HackerRank recruiting system data.
    Payload
    • Angular
    • TypeScript
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • C#
    • .NET
    • Azure SQL
    • ServiceNow
    • MongoDB
    • Spring Boot

Launch log · 2019 – 2024 · 8 missions

Projects

Side builds outside the day job: a game engine, GPU kernels, a transformer from scratch, a toolchain for a custom instruction set, and full-stack apps. All source is on GitHub.

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  • CrownFlame 2D logo
    launch 2024Archived

    CrownFlame 2D Game Engine

    Cross-platform 2D/2.5D game engine with sprite rendering, input handling, and game loop architecture supporting multiple graphics backends.

    • C++
    • OpenGL
    • Vulkan
    • DirectX12
    • CMake
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  • AssistGo logo
    launch 2022Completed

    AssistGo Mobile App

    Accessibility-focused mobile app for users with visual and hearing impairments, featuring text-to-speech, voice navigation, multi-language support, and Twilio-powered calling.

    • Android
    • Java
    • Node.js
    • Express
    • TypeScript
    • MongoDB
    FrontendBackend
  • CUDA K-means centroid computation title card
    launch 2024Completed

    GPU-Accelerated K-Means Clustering

    Parallel K-Means implementation using CUDA, benchmarking GPU vs CPU performance across varying cluster counts and dataset sizes.

    • CUDA
    • C++
    • Parallel Computing
    View Project
  • Transformer encoder model title card
    launch 2024Completed

    Transformer Neural Language Model

    Implemented a Transformer from first principles — custom tokenizer, sinusoidal positional encodings, self-attention, and beam-search decoding, achieving >98% accuracy on a 100K-word corpus.

    • Python
    • PyTorch
    • NumPy
    View Project
  • launch 2024Completed

    Parallel Image Processing Pipeline

    Hybrid pipeline using Node.js worker threads and native C++ addons for concurrent image transformations with benchmarked throughput.

    • Node.js
    • C++
    • JavaScript
    View Project
  • MarketCove e-commerce logo
    launch 2024Archived

    MarketCove E-Commerce Platform

    Full-stack e-commerce application with product catalog, cart management, and RESTful API backend.

    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Spring Boot
    • PostgreSQL
    FrontendBackend
  • SIA Assembler title card
    SIA Virtual Machine title card
    launch 2020Completed

    SIA Assembler & Virtual Machine

    Custom two-pass assembler and double-buffered pipeline virtual machine for the SIA instruction set, supporting labels, directives, and full instruction decoding.

    • C
    • Assembly
    • Systems Programming
    AssemblerVM
  • Battleship in C title card
    launch 2019Completed

    Battleship Game

    CLI-based game replicating the classic Battleship board game with AI opponent logic.

    • C
    • Data Structures
    • Algorithms
    View Project

Star chart · 6 domains · 83 skills

Skills

The languages, frameworks and tools I build with every day, charted as one constellation per domain.

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  • 6 stars

    • Claude Code
    • Cursor
    • GitHub Copilot
    • Gemini
    • n8n
    • OpenAI Codex

  • 17 stars

    • TypeScript
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Rust
    • Go
    • C#
    • Swift
    • Kotlin
    • Java
    • Dart
    • C++
    • C
    • SQL
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • XML
    • XAML

  • 19 stars

    • Next.js
    • React
    • Node.js
    • FastAPI
    • Express
    • NestJS
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Flutter
    • React Native
    • Angular
    • .NET
    • Spring Boot
    • Django
    • Flask
    • Redux
    • Blazor
    • SASS
    • Vulkan
    • OpenGL

  • 9 stars

    • Transformers
    • GPT
    • Deep Learning
    • PyTorch
    • Intent Classification
    • TensorFlow
    • scikit-learn
    • NumPy
    • Pandas

  • 11 stars

    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • MySQL
    • SQL Server
    • SQLite
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • iOS
    • Android
    • ServiceNow

  • 21 stars

    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Azure
    • GCP
    • Git
    • Vercel
    • Vite
    • Jenkins
    • Cloudflare
    • Firebase
    • Nginx
    • Gradle
    • Maven
    • Postman
    • Figma
    • Jira
    • Agile
    • Webpack
    • CMake