Daniel Raftery
Staff Architect at Freelance
Freeport, Maine, United States
Summary
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RockstarDaniel Raftery is a Staff Architect at American Express with 14 years of experience designing and delivering web systems. A prolific open-source developer since the early 2000s, he is the sole/core contributor to projects such as animo.js, where his early commits established the library and he solved tricky issues like SVG blur handling and animation callbacks. He combines hands‑on front-end craftsmanship with enterprise architecture, drawing on senior engineering roles at Versal and Big Room Technologies and web leadership at LibraryThing. Based in Freeport, Maine, he pairs pragmatic code organization and reliability improvements with long-term stewardship of developer-facing libraries. His background includes director-level and retail management roles, giving him a rare blend of technical depth and real-world people and product management experience.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
css10
css-animation10
javascript10
lib10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
jquery10
css-animations10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ThrivingKings/animo.js
Aug 2013 - Apr 2017
A powerful little tool for managing CSS animations
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 24 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the front-end development of the animo.js library. Their initial commits set up the project and introduced the core functionality. Subsequent commits focused on adding CSS animation features and fixing issues related to callbacks and SVG handling for blur effects. The user also updated versions and improved code organization.
animationcssweb-animations-apicss-animationsanimations
ThrivingKings/Badger
Jul 2011 - Jun 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
jqueryios-styleiosbadgessexy
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