Daniel Whiffing
Software Engineer at Self-employed
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Whiffing is a Full Stack Software Engineer with 10 years of experience who blends a design and illustration background with pragmatic engineering to build fast, user-focused products. He specializes in modern JavaScript stacks—React, React Native, Gatsby, Next.js and Node/Express—preferring serverless patterns to minimize backend complexity. At Drop he moved from IC to Growth Engineering Lead, shipping product features and games that raised weekly active users by ~23% while mentoring junior engineers and improving experimentation tooling. Now based in Old Toronto, he consults and engineers at Lazer Technologies, with a track record of rapid prototyping, tight delivery timelines, and an appetite for hackathons and unconventional ideas.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Art Fundamentals, Illustration, 3.5, Art Fundamentals, Illustration, 3.5 at Sheridan CollegeIllustration Diploma, Illustration, 3.5, Illustration Diploma, Illustration, 3.5 at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
English
Github Skills (29)
ludum-dare9
range-slider9
swift8
kotlin8
watchos8
slider-component8
tvos8
react-component8
redux8
ios7
golang7
windows7
android7
wechat7
react7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dwhiffing/snakebake
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
dwhiffing/idle-game
Sep 2015 - Feb 2020
An idle game written with react and redux
Contributions:39 commits, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
reactgameidleidle-gameredux
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