Alden Daniels - Engineering at Figma

Alden Daniels

Engineering at Figma

Boulder, Colorado, United States

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Alden Daniels is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years building rich, collaborative web experiences for startups and fast-growing products. Currently at Figma and formerly a multi-role early hire at Coda, he has led frontend teams, driven user research, and helped shape product experiences used by thousands of organizations. He blends deep front-end craftsmanship—contributions to Ace editor and a React Highcharts wrapper—with systems thinking around scaling and performance, including OT-based real-time collaboration in his Codr project. Alden has founded and led engineering teams, shipped production-ready real-time editors and simulation platforms used by Fortune 2000 clients, and repeatedly built robust front-end architectures and deployment pipelines. Based in Boulder, CO, he pairs a business-adjacent Bachelor's (3.99 GPA) with hands-on product engineering, making him as comfortable in design-led UX decisions as in refactors that improve runtime performance. Notably, his open-source work shows a pattern of simplifying complex document and delta logic to make real-time editors faster and more maintainable.

13 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration, 3.99 GPA, Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration, 3.99 GPA at LeTourneau University

English, French

Github Skills (11)

javascript10

refactoring10

highcharts10

react10

refactor10

jsx10

webpacker9

webpack9

architecture9

architectures9

testing7

Programming languages (13)

MDXJavaCSSC++RustCGoJSON

Github contributions (5)

kirjs/react-highcharts

Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

React wrapper for Highcharts library

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 29 comments in 1 month

Contributions summary:Alden primarily focused on developing the React-based UI wrapper for the Highcharts library. Their contributions included integrating the Highcharts library into a React component, refactoring the codebase, and updating dependencies to the latest versions of Highcharts. The user also implemented features like the `isPureConfig` prop to optimize performance by preventing unnecessary re-renders of the chart component. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to Webpack and demo configurations.

highchartsreact-wrapperreact-highchartshighmapshighstock

ajaxorg/ace

Jan 2014 - Jan 2014

Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:18 commits, 3 comments in 10 days

Contributions summary:Alden significantly refactored the document delta handling within the Ace editor, combining delta types and simplifying the applyDelta function. They also updated the public API by deprecating older methods and implementing wrappers around the new methods, improving code style. Furthermore, the user fixed render bugs, optimized the application of single-line deltas for speed, and refactored code to break out helper functions into its own module and implemented other code improvements.

cloud9

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