Daniel Nixon
Senior Software Engineer at Agile Digital
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolDaniel Nixon is a Senior Software Engineer based in Canberra with 13 years of hands-on experience building reliable web applications and services. He currently engineers solutions at Agile Digital, after earlier development roles in financial and government sectors, bringing pragmatic domain knowledge from Defence Housing Australia and Greater Building Society. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the scala-js/scala-js-dom project by modernising the statically typed DOM API—fixing correctness issues, deprecating non-standard elements, and aligning properties with current web standards. Comfortable across front- and back-end concerns, he combines careful API design with maintainability-focused refactoring, and has a formal Computer Science background from the University of New England.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of New England (AU)
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
dom-api10
web-standards10
type-safety10
scala10
playframework9
typescript9
accessibility9
html9
css7
sbt6
font-awesome6
wcag6
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
scala-js/scala-js-dom
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Statically typed DOM API for Scala.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the `scala-js/scala-js-dom` project, a statically typed DOM API for Scala. Their contributions involved improving the API's correctness and maintainability by addressing typos, deprecating obsolete and non-standard elements, and correcting properties to reflect the latest web standards. This work included refactoring code to use `def` for read-only properties, and adjusting the API's functionality to align with modern web specifications.
apistatically-typedscalajsdom-apiscala
danielnixon/horo-nope
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:25 PRs, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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