Dan Bornside
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarDan Bornside is a software engineer with 12 years of experience who excels in back-end development and codebase refactoring, particularly within functional programming ecosystems. He has contributed to the widely used reflex-frp project, improving core functionality by extracting components into monoidal-containers and enhancing typeclass support for Group and Additive, showing a knack for deep, type-driven design. Comfortable updating dependencies and polishing code hygiene, he combines pragmatic maintenance with thoughtful architectural changes that reduce technical debt. Based in the United States, Dan brings steady, long-term engineering discipline and a preference for pure-functional approaches that make interactive systems easier to reason about. Colleagues can expect a developer who not only fixes bugs but reshapes libraries to be more composable and reusable.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
url-routing10
obelisk10
typeclass10
routers10
reflex10
router10
routing-controllers10
webpages10
full-stack10
web-content10
functional-reactive-programming10
routes10
frp10
asset-management10
haskell10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
reflex-frp/reflex
Aug 2018 - Dec 2019
Interactive programs without callbacks or side-effects. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) uses composable events and time-varying values to describe interactive systems as pure functions. Just like other pure functional code, functional reactive code is easier to get right on the first try, maintain, and reuse.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on refactoring and extending the project's core functionality. Their work involved moving code to the `monoidal-containers` library and adding various instances related to `Group` and `Additive` typeclasses. They also modified the `Reflex.Query.Class` module to improve the query capabilities. The user updated the project's dependencies and corrected spelling errors in the codebase.
eventsreflex-frpdescribecallbacksfunctional-reactive-programming
obsidiansystems/cardano-ledger-specs
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
A formal specification and executable model of the ledger rules introduced by the Shelley release
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
adaformal-specificationspecificationshelleyplutus
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