Daniel Russell
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Startpage
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Russell is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Austin with 11 years of hands-on experience building client-facing search engines, internal GUIs, and online advertising platforms. He combines an engineer-first approach—spending ~80% of his time coding and reviewing—with people leadership, coaching, and product planning. Technically fluent across frontend and fullstack stacks (React, Vue, TypeScript, Node, Python/Flask, Prebid.js, AWS, Jenkins), he has a track record of shipping polished UIs, optimizing build and deploy pipelines, and architecting content and ad systems at scale. At Startpage he led cross-functional redesigns, built static site generator pipelines for extensions, and helped transition legacy search platforms to modern frameworks. He’s passionate about privacy-first products and reusable, well-tested solutions, and brings a creative background in motion graphics that informs thoughtful UX and animation work. Outside of day-to-day management he remains an active coder and open-source-minded engineer, maintaining a public GitHub and engineering blog.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree History, Bachelor's degree History at UC Santa Barbara
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (168)
declarative10
linting10
webextension10
fingerprinting10
javascript10
badger10
eslint10
truffle10
naming-conventions10
chrome-extension10
babel-plugin10
frontend10
react10
solidity9
browser9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
danielrussellLA/slackPullRequestReminder
Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
A command line tool for scheduling automatic reminders on Slack. Sends Slack messages every hour under your user name to remind teammates to check out your github pull request. Sends push notifications to you when teammates comment on or approve your PR.
Contributions:72 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
command-line-toolpushschedulingapprovepush-notifications
danielrussellLA/personalResearchProject
May 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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