Summary
Daniel Kerr is a Senior Software Development Engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance web applications, currently contributing to MarketAxess after leading front-end architecture at JPMorgan Chase. He specializes in TypeScript, React/Next.js, Redux, GraphQL and CI/CD, and has a strong track record delivering greenfield SPAs and B2B trading platforms with measurable reductions in bugs and onboarding time. A former opera singer with degrees in psychology, classics, and voice performance from Cornell and Rider, he brings rare communication and disciplined problem-solving skills to engineering teams. His early interest in game development evolved into a passion for scalable web UX, and his freelance work includes dramatic performance optimizations—some projects yielded multi-hundred to multi-thousand percent speedups. He mentors junior engineers and drives best practices in testing, accessibility, and API design, blending hands-on coding with systems-level thinking.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music Voice Performance, Bachelor of Music Voice Performance at Rider University
Fullstack Academy
Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology at Cornell University