Daniel Brown
Senior Application Developer
Glen Allen, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Brown is a Senior Application Developer with 10 years of experience building backend-first web applications using Python, Ruby, Go, and JavaScript. Based in Glen Allen, Virginia, he currently leads development at Viget after progressing from application developer to senior roles, pairing hands-on coding with team leadership. His open-source contributions include meaningful Django work for the well-regarded OSF.io project, improving routing, authentication checks, and test coverage to harden user-facing behavior. A University of Virginia computer science graduate and former CS tutor, he brings both practical engineering and mentoring experience to cross-functional teams. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into reliable, user-focused systems while continuously adopting new tools and languages.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (4)
django10
python10
testing9
javascript4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily worked on improving the routing and views within the OSF.io project. Their contributions included redirecting URLs, fixing spacing issues, and updating test cases to check for expected HTTP status codes. They also added checks to prevent unauthorized access to profile pages. The user's work centered on modifying the Django-based application's behavior and ensuring correct URL handling and user authentication.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
vigetlabs/storyboard
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
For making ADVENTURES
Contributions:2 reviews, 113 commits, 18 PRs in 7 months
reactchoose-your-own-adventurejavascriptflowchartadventures
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