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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    role: "Senior Software Engineer",
    company: "Disney Streaming",
    products: ["Disney+", "Hulu", "ESPN"],
    frontend: ["React", "Next.js", "Angular",
               "Flutter", "React Native"],
    backend: ["Node.js", "FastAPI", ".NET",
              "Spring Boot", "Express"],
    code: ["TypeScript", "Python", "C#",
           "Rust", "Go", "C++", "C"],
    ai: ["GenAI", "Transformers", "CUDA",
         "PyTorch", "scikit-learn"],
    education: "MS CS @ UT Austin (4.0)",
    prev: "Visa Inc (3 yrs, promoted)",
    passion: "AI platforms → 1000s of users",
    speaks: ["🇦🇱","🇬🇷","🇺🇸","🇩🇪","🇫🇷","🇯🇵","🇰🇷"],
    martialArts: "Black Belt",
    hobbies: ["Muay Thai", "MMA", "Judo",
              "Weightlifting", "Anime",
              "Soccer", "Esports", "Cooking",
              "Hiking"],
    interests: ["Homelab", "Hardware Dev"],
    location: "New York, USA",
    status: "Building cool stuff 🚀"
  };
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About

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.

LocationNew York, USA
LanguagesAlbanian, Greek, English, German, French, Japanese, Korean
Martial ArtsMuay Thai, MMA, Judo, Taekwondo (Black Belt)
SportsWeightlifting, Soccer
HobbiesHomelab, Hardware Dev, Anime, Esports, Cooking, Hiking
Daniel Nofulla
Daniel NofullaSenior Software Engineer
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Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Disney Streaming//Aug 2025 — Present

New York, United States

  • 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.
  • 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.
Next.jsReactTypeScriptCMSOpenTelemetryDatadogSEOMonorepo

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Visa, Inc//Jul 2024 — Jul 2025

Austin, Texas, United States

  • 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.
  • 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.
ReactTypeScript.NETC#PythonFastAPIscikit-learnFlutterDartGenAIiOSAndroid

Software Engineer - Full Stack

Visa, Inc//Jun 2022 — Jun 2024

Austin, Texas, United States

  • 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.
  • 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.
AngularTypeScriptPythonFastAPIC#.NETAzure SQLServiceNowMongoDBSpring Boot
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Projects

CrownFlame 2D Game Engine

Archived

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

C++OpenGLVulkanDirectX12CMake
View Project

AssistGo Mobile App

Completed

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

AndroidJavaNode.jsExpressTypeScriptMongoDB
FrontendBackend

GPU-Accelerated K-Means Clustering

Completed

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

CUDAC++Parallel Computing
View Project

Transformer Neural Language Model

Completed

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.

PythonPyTorchNumPy
View Project

Parallel Image Processing Pipeline

Completed

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

Node.jsC++JavaScript
View Project

MarketCove E-Commerce Platform

Archived

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

ReactTypeScriptSpring BootPostgreSQL
FrontendBackend

SIA Assembler & Virtual Machine

Completed

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

CAssemblySystems Programming
AssemblerVM

Battleship Game

Completed

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

CData StructuresAlgorithms
View Project
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Skills

Agentic AI6

Claude CodeCursorGitHub CopilotGeminin8nOpenAI Codex

Languages17

TypeScriptPythonJavaScriptRustGoC#SwiftKotlinJavaDartC++CSQLHTMLCSSXMLXAML

Frameworks19

Next.jsReactNode.jsFastAPIExpressNestJSTailwind CSSFlutterReact NativeAngular.NETSpring BootDjangoFlaskReduxBlazorSASSVulkanOpenGL

AI & ML9

TransformersGPTDeep LearningPyTorchIntent ClassificationTensorFlowscikit-learnNumPyPandas

Databases & Platforms11

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisMySQLSQL ServerSQLiteLinuxmacOSiOSAndroidServiceNow

DevOps & Tools21

DockerKubernetesAWSTerraformAzureGCPGitVercelViteJenkinsCloudflareFirebaseNginxGradleMavenPostmanFigmaJiraAgileWebpackCMake