Daniel Feder
Engineer at CivicActions
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Feder is a civic technologist and engineer with 14 years building web applications and open data platforms, best known for technical leadership on the DKAN open data portal. He combines backend Drupal development—JSON metadata and schema form work—with product design and architecture guidance at CivicActions, shaping features used by governments and nonprofits. Bilingual and culturally fluent after six years living in Mexico and Colombia, he brings a rare mix of technical craft, journalism, translation, and human-rights field experience. That blend helps him translate complex civic requirements into practical, user-focused data tools that improve transparency and public access.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Journalism and Social Theory, B.A, Journalism and Social Theory at Boston University
English, Spanish
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json10
drupal10
php10
database9
imagemagick9
databases9
webservice8
api-design7
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imagick6
macos6
symfony6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
GetDKAN/dkan
Apr 2014 - Dec 2022
DKAN Open Data Portal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 releases, 321 reviews, 1907 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel implemented features related to JSON metadata handling and JSON schema forms. They created and modified field types and widgets, specifically focusing on JSON schema forms, illustrating development within a Drupal environment. The user also added functionality for displaying data in a table format, indicating efforts to improve the presentation and usability of data. Finally, the user appears to have worked on a migration of a JSON form module.
phpdatastoredkandata-portalportal
GetDKAN/harvest
Jul 2019 - Feb 2025
Drupal-independent version of the Harvest functionality from DKAN
Contributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 10 PRs in 5 years 7 months
drupalindependentdkanharvest
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