Daniel Bayley
Contractor Developer Designer at Various Clients*
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Bayley is a versatile Full Stack Developer and Motion/Graphic Designer with 11 years of experience delivering elegant, pragmatic solutions that favour composition over inheritance and minimal, thoughtful design. As a top 1% TypeScript/JavaScript engineer and a prolific UK open-source contributor, he has contributed practical fixes and automation to high-profile projects such as Homebrew and Popcorn Time, improving packaging, CI, and macOS distribution flows. He balances front-end UX work (Atom packages, UI/UX improvements) with backend tooling and QA, demonstrating fluency across the stack and a knack for streamlining developer workflows. Operating as a long-term freelance contractor from Stony Stratford, he pairs client-facing design sensibilities with production-grade engineering discipline. An often-overlooked strength is his motion-design background, which informs clearer interfaces and more intuitive user interactions in the software he builds.
11 years of coding experience
BA (Hons), Graphic Design, 2:1, BA (Hons), Graphic Design, 2:1 at Northumbria UniversityCumbria Institute of the Arts
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
atom-editor10
git10
javascript10
coffeescript10
package-management10
testing10
css10
bash10
ruby10
homebrew10
automation10
script10
macos10
automations10
lessc10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
atom-community/atom-script
Aug 2014 - May 2018
:runner: Run ( scripts | selections | source ) in Atom
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 11 PRs, 68 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the atom-script project by enhancing its language support and functionality. They added support for JavaScript for Automation (JXA), made improvements to CoffeeScript execution, and updated the Makefile integration. Their work also included cleaning up the grammar file, improving support for modern JavaScript, and adding Cakefile support, demonstrating a focus on improving the project's ability to run various script types within the Atom editor.
atom-pluginscripttextmaterunneratom
popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Popcorn Time is a multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player ( Windows / Mac / Linux ) A Butter-Project Fork
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 27 PRs, 21 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on automating the build and installation process for the Popcorn Time desktop application. Their contributions involve creating and modifying Homebrew Casks for both stable and beta releases. They added and configured auto-updates, and fixed various Cask-related issues including updating shasums and build steps. The user's work streamlined the distribution and installation process for macOS users.
bittorrentnwjsmulti-platformbittorrent-clientplayer
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