Danny Allen
Director at Wonderscore Ltd
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanny Allen is a Director and seasoned user experience engineer with 11 years of experience designing high-performance, accessible front-ends for both startups and enterprise teams. He combines product-minded UX leadership with hands-on front-end development, having led UX at Ocelot and front-end engineering at E.ON UK while running his own company, Wonderscore. Known for meticulous attention to detail and a focus on quality, he has contributed to notable open-source projects like Elastic’s EUI and the Hain launcher, improving component behavior, documentation, theming and performance. Comfortable bridging design and engineering, he excels at shipping practical solutions quickly without sacrificing usability or accessibility. A first-class Computer Science graduate who also spent time studying in Pittsburgh, he brings an analytical mindset informed by both technical depth and real-world product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Geography, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Geography, 1st Class Honours at University of Wales, AberystwythExchange Programme, Computer Science (minor in Urban Studies), Exchange Programme, Computer Science (minor in Urban Studies) at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
electron10
eui10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
system10
sys10
theme-development10
launcher10
react10
typescript9
windows9
css9
typescript-types9
documentation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hainproject/hain
May 2018 - Jun 2018
An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Danny contributed significant features and improvements to the Hain launcher, primarily focusing on the front-end and supporting back-end logic. They implemented extensive theme support, including the ability to load 3rd party themes and improved styling. They also optimized and added robustness to the file search plugin, improving performance and handling of environment variables. The user further refactored the preferences UI and implemented sophisticated draggable window functionality.
windowselectronaltlauncherelectron-app
elastic/eui
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Danny primarily focused on improving the Elastic UI Framework by addressing issues related to component functionality and documentation. They implemented a new `appendIconComponentCache` function for the `EuiIcon` component to work around dynamic loading issues, fixed incorrect references in the `EuiStat` documentation, and corrected a missing quote in a list group example. Additionally, they addressed linting issues related to Windows console behavior by modifying the `package.json` file. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on component enhancement, bug fixing, and documentation accuracy.
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
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