Daniel Griffiths
Developer at Easy Digital Downloads
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Griffiths is a seasoned developer with 11+ years of experience building and maintaining WordPress ecosystems, Linux distributions, and developer tooling. He has led projects and teams as CTO and founder, created the widely used Redux Framework, and contributes to notable open-source efforts like Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants where he improved PHP dev environments and ARM64 support. Skilled across C/C++, PHP, NodeJS, shell scripting, and SQL, he combines low-level systems experience (Arch Linux core developer) with practical web publishing expertise. Based in Arvada, Colorado, he runs freelance and core development work for Easy Digital Downloads, delivering bespoke plugin solutions and developer-friendly infrastructure improvements. An underrated strength is his blend of ops-focused DevOps work and front-end/theme tooling, enabling him to bridge developer experience and production reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MCRD Parris Island
Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
php10
vagrant10
xdebug10
composer10
bash9
docker8
arm8
system-administration8
dockers8
cicd7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
Mar 2021 - May 2021
An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 34 commits, 32 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the project's infrastructure and environment setup, particularly related to WordPress development using Vagrant. They focused on enhancing the PHP environment by integrating Xdebug for debugging and ensuring proper installation of Composer, a dependency manager. Furthermore, the user addressed configuration issues for ARM64 architecture and enhanced build processes for specific tools like PHP CodeSniffer and MariaDB installation.
vagrantwordpressvvvvarying-vagrant-vagrants
Section214/PrintCenter
Dec 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 27 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 7 months
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