Danielle Man is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building developer-facing products and teams from San Francisco. She spent nearly a decade at Apollo GraphQL helping make GraphQL easier to build with — contributing front-end work to Apollo Client DevTools (including webpack integration, syntax highlighting and panel resizing) and reorganizing core documentation across the platform. As Senior Director and Director of Engineering she led the GraphOS Platform, served as interim Product Design manager, and received Apollo’s Company Leadership award in 2024. Today she’s CTO and cofounder of Longeye, building a modern investigative platform for the justice system. An MIT-trained technologist who freely wears many hats — from developer and designer to recruiter and advocate — she combines hands-on product craft with company-building instincts.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
:rocket: Open source tools for GraphQL. Central repo for discussion.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:19 reviews, 181 commits, 82 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Danielle primarily contributed to the documentation of the Apollo platform, specifically focusing on updating and organizing the documentation files. The commits reflect changes to the `gatsby-config.js` files across multiple directories (`docs`, `studio-docs`, `graph-manager-docs`), indicating the restructuring and linking of content within the documentation. This involved renaming and consolidating existing content, as well as adding links and new articles to improve the overall structure and clarity of the documentation.
Contributions:5 releases, 52 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Danielle primarily focused on developing the front-end for the Apollo Client Devtools. Their commits demonstrate the integration of webpack for building the project and the use of less for styling. The user updated the GraphiQL styles, improved the file structure, and incorporated syntax highlighting for queries. Furthermore, they contributed to the addition of panel resizing features.
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