Daniel Nigro
Senior Front End Developer at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Nigro is a Senior Front End Developer with 20+ years of experience, currently building user-facing systems at Meta from Palo Alto. He blends deep front-end expertise in React and tooling with a strong .NET backend background, having contributed to high-profile open-source projects like React, Babel, Jest and Yarn as well as .NET-focused repos. Known for improving developer tooling and CI/CD workflows, he’s implemented testing utilities, REPL enhancements and packaging automation that improved reliability and developer experience. Originally from Melbourne and a dotnet-foundation member, he pairs practical production fixes—like IIS static-file handling and Safari-specific workarounds—with UX-focused improvements across documentation sites and editor toolchains.
20 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
VCE, VCE at Northcote High SchoolBachelor of Science (Professional Software Development), Bachelor of Science (Professional Software Development) at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (81)
website-development10
flow-control10
web-application10
package-management10
testing10
bash10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
iis10
website-design10
web-development10
jsx10
integration-testing10
javascript10
debian10
Programming languages (37)
Github contributions (5)
reactjs/React.NET
Mar 2014 - May 2020
.NET library for JSX compilation and server-side rendering of React components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 425 commits, 126 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the implementation of React components, including server-side rendering and optimization for the MSIE JavaScript engine. They also introduced build scripts, JSX transformation, and file caching mechanisms to improve performance. Additionally, the user worked on the front-end aspects of the project to allow a website custom audience tracking pixel.
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reactjs/react-magic
Jan 2014 - Oct 2017
Automatically AJAXify plain HTML with the power of React. It's magic!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:95 commits, 93 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the React-based front-end. They updated URLs to reflect the new ReactJS repository structure and fixed React.js URLs in the loading mechanism. A significant contribution involved moving and integrating the `htmltojsx.js` file for converting HTML to JSX, and implementing a command-line interface for the same purpose. They also implemented a Gulp task to push to GitHub Pages and added a basic unit test suite, refining and improving the usability of the site.
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