Dan Carbonell is a Mobile Engineer with seven years of software experience who blends front-end React/React Native expertise with product-focused leadership across startups and fintech. Based in Boulder, he has led teams at Stream as React Team Lead and shipped customer-facing features at Betterment and Makara, most recently moving into mobile engineering at Venice.ai after a lead role at Mondo Robot. He contributes to notable open-source projects like GetStream’s stream-chat React and React Native SDKs, where his UI and test improvements improved channel previews and virtualized message lists for real-time chat. An MBA-trained strategist who also runs a small business (Yoga Pod), Dan brings a rare mix of engineering depth, design-oriented frontend polish, and operational leadership. He is comfortable translating product needs into polished UI interactions and reliable tests, and often surfaces pragmatic UX improvements that aren’t obvious from code alone.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Competitive Strategy Finance, MBA Competitive Strategy Finance at University of Florida - Warrington College of Business
BS Civil and Coastal Engineering, BS Civil and Coastal Engineering at University of Florida
Contributions:58 releases, 543 reviews, 1410 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dan's commits primarily focus on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the "stream-chat-react" repository. The commits modified various message input components and virtualized message list, demonstrating a focus on React component development. The code changes also include adjustments to custom CSS class overrides, indicating a focus on styling and theming to create a flexible user experience.
💬 React-Native Chat SDK ➜ Stream Chat. Includes a tutorial on building your own chat app experience using React-Native, React-Navigation and Stream
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:76 reviews, 72 commits, 54 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the React Native chat SDK, making various updates to UI components related to channel previews. Their work involved modifying files related to displaying channel information such as display names, avatars, and latest messages. Furthermore, the user updated the test files to ensure the UI components are working correctly.
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