Daniel Cloud
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Cloud is a Managing Software Engineer with 14 years of experience delivering data-driven web and mobile applications. Based in Durham, NC, he has led government-focused software projects and consumer-facing apps such as Political Ad Sleuth, Sunlight Foundation's Congress app for iOS, Ad Hawk for iOS, and the Rocky Mountain News Election Map. He excels across the full stack—from Python/Django and SQL to HTML5/JavaScript, with hands-on Objective-C for iOS and experience in Actionscript and XML—alongside usability-driven design. At Ad Hoc LLC, he architected scalable QA strategies for federal agency adoption, built a React-based hub page for large-scale migrations, and bridged Salesforce with Apex and SOQL, while mentoring multiple levels of engineers. He combines journalism and tech through an MA in Journalism from UNC Chapel Hill and a BA in History, Computer Science, and Film Studies from UNC Wilmington, reflecting a passion for government transparency and data-driven journalism. He is known for turning complex data into accessible, auditable software systems.
15 years of coding experience
BA, History, Computer Science, Film Studies, BA, History, Computer Science, Film Studies at University of North Carolina WilmingtonMA, Journalism, MA, Journalism at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (113)
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guidelines10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CSIS-iLab/new-silk-road
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Repo for Reconnecting Asia project
Contributions:1182 commits, 495 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year
javareconnectingasia
dcloud/graymalkin-lane
Nov 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 6 months
placejavascriptreactlearning-resources
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