Dan Tocchini is a founder-engineer with 14 years crafting computational creativity and elegant user experiences, co-founding The Grid—one of the most successful SaaS crowdfunders—and now leading Ncarnate Labs from San Francisco. Trained in Engineering Physics at UC Berkeley, he blends a systems mindset with front-end finesse, shipping polished UI work and theming improvements in open-source projects like NoFlo UI and the-graph. His focus spans product design to hands-on implementation, often dreaming in code while refining interactions and visual detail. Notably, his career pairs entrepreneurial scale-up experience with persistent open-source contributions that improve graph visualization and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics at University of California, Berkeley
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the NoFlo development environment. Their contributions include styling the UI, merging UI-related branches, and making UI-focused tweaks such as adding keyboard shortcuts and modifying layout. The changes involve modifying Polymer elements, CSS, and HTML structure to improve the visual presentation and user interaction within the NoFlo UI. These modifications suggest a focus on the front-end aspects of the development environment.
SVG custom elements for FBP graph editing and visualization. Used in noflo/noflo-ui
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the UI of the `the-graph` repository, a project focused on SVG custom elements for graph editing and visualization. Their work involved styling the UI components using CSS, focusing on elements like the graph nodes, ports, and edges, as well as implementing theming improvements. The commits demonstrate modifications to background styling, icon positioning, and other visual elements to enhance the user interface. These changes suggest a focus on improving the visual appearance and user experience of the graph visualization.
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