Daniel Cortes is known as a self-published author, former blogger and Software/Infrastructure Engineer.

He practices the eight essential skills every professional should have, four of which are:

1. Learn challenging new material over one's entire productive life.
2. Creatively apply newly-mastered knowledge and skills to a variety of fields.
3. Be adaptable, responsible and accountable in all work environments.
4. Apply a full spectrum of entrepreneurial skills to any task, that is, take ownership of one's work.

Daniel is very good at utilizing technology to add to the value proposition of any business and works at improving his technological skills everyday. He also works effectively with others to solve problems.

Daniel used to provides support to small businesses, in the form of web development, SEO and social media marketing and brand restoration. Daniel Cortes can also served as a guest writer, contributor and blogger on any website concerned with regional economic and social development issues. For example, Daniel has been a guest writer to the website The Big Plantation.

These days Daniel continues to develop software application which are available on www.github.com/ldco2016.

In his current role as a Linux Solutions Consultant he acts a combination of Linux Systems Administrator and DevOps Engineer with experience in Chef, Docker, Jenkins and Puppet.

He has done collaborative open source work on a Ruby on Rails application and is a member of the Philly WordPress Meetup as well as the Philly Ruby Meetup and has developed several custom WordPress themes.

You can learn more about Luis Daniel Cortes by visiting his website at www.dancortes.com.