Daniel Büchele
Software Engineer at Figma
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Büchele is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building fast, user-focused frontends and developer tooling, now working at Figma after senior engineering and management roles at Meta. He has deep expertise in React, React Native, developer tools and performance, having led messaging and performance work on Workplace and contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Flipper and Yoga. Comfortable across the stack, Daniel has implemented cross-platform desktop builds, native module integrations and improved JS bindings and type safety, showing both product and systems-level thinking. His background includes building GraphQL APIs and PostgreSQL infrastructure, as well as mobile and web UX work for media and mapping products. Notably, he contributed to Goofy, a desktop Facebook Messenger client, implementing photo uploads and UI refinements—evidence of a practical, user-centric engineering approach. He combines technical leadership with hands-on coding and a knack for turning developer tooling improvements into tangible productivity gains.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
German, English, French
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Github Skills (36)
accessibility10
babel610
javascript10
flow-control10
electron10
css10
work-flow10
typescript10
ui-design10
workflow-automation10
babel-core10
control-flow10
typescript-types10
flowtype10
babeljs10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
danielbuechele/goofy
Nov 2014 - Feb 2021
macOS app for Facebook Messenger
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 157 commits, 63 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the Goofy project, a desktop client for Facebook Messenger, by implementing new features and fixing bugs. Their work involved modifying Swift files for the iOS app, JavaScript files for the server-side functionality, and CSS for styling. The user also added features such as photo upload functionality and made changes to the user interface.
macos
react/yoga
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 4 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the JavaScript bindings for the Yoga layout engine. Their work involved adding Flow types for improved code maintainability and readability, transpiling the bundle using Babel for broader compatibility, and cleaning up and formatting the codebase. Additionally, they added a web-based playground to test and demonstrate Yoga's functionality within a browser environment. The changes included code generation for different frameworks, and fixes to the playground's editing capabilities and links.
layout-engine
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