Daniel Bird
Software Engineer at Xero
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDaniel Bird is a pragmatic software engineer based in Brisbane with nine years of professional experience and a strong background in front-end development, currently contributing at Xero. He combines hands-on engineering—demonstrated by UI-focused contributions to the popular toolkit-for-ynab browser extension—with entrepreneurial experience building and running a successful gardening business where he developed internal scheduling tooling and a React lead-capture site. Comfortable across the full stack, Daniel trained at Enspiral Dev Academy and brings practical skills in React, Node.js, testing, and deployment alongside project management and client-facing experience. Known for automating and tinkering, he excels at translating user needs into usable interfaces and reliable features while mentoring peers and communicating clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, With Distinction, Diploma, Computer Science, With Distinction at Informatics Education Ltd.Caulfield Grammar SchoolComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Dev Academy Aotearoa
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Github Skills (12)
uid10
google-chrome-extension10
webextension10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
css9
html8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
toolkit-for-ynab/toolkit-for-ynab
May 2017 - Oct 2017
A general purpose YNAB enhancing browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Have it your way!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 12 PRs, 35 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the user interface of the browser extension, specifically focusing on the "Display Target Goal Amount" feature. Their work included modifying the display of budget information, adding styling, and correcting the logic for warnings related to budgeting goals. The user also addressed an issue with the feature's background and ensured that the user interface responded correctly to changes in the application's state. Further commits included adding a release modal.
firefoxbrowserynabenhancingchrome
danieldbird/server-home
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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