Danny Dainton
Senior Developer Advocate
Keynsham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanny Dainton is a Senior Developer Advocate at Postman with 9 years of engineering experience and a strong background in quality engineering and test automation. He progressed through multiple technical roles at Postman—from Senior Quality Engineer to Senior SDET and community-focused advocate—demonstrating deep product knowledge and a knack for translating developer needs into practical tooling. His open-source work includes enhancing newman-reporter-htmlextra, bringing better date formatting, iteration-aware reporting, and UX improvements like copy-to-clipboard and environment variable visibility to Postman's CLI ecosystem. A former British Army soldier, he combines discipline and operational thinking with hands-on full-stack development and community engagement. Based in Keynsham, England, Danny pairs technical rigor with developer empathy, excelling at turning complex test data into accessible, actionable reports.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Penryn College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
json10
javascript10
handlebars10
css10
html10
postman10
timestamp10
testing9
post9
webservice9
http9
cookie9
rest9
momentjs9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DannyDainton/newman-reporter-htmlextra
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
A HTML reporter for Postman's Command Line Runner, Newman. Includes Non Aggregated Runs broken down by Iterations, Skipped Tests, Console Logs and the handlebars helpers module for better custom templates.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 236 commits, 220 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Danny focused on enhancing the HTML reporter for Newman, a command-line runner for Postman. Their work included the integration of a moment.js helper for improved date formatting, and the addition of features to display the tests, failures, and skipped tests in the reports. They also worked on improving the user experience through styling and copy-to-clipboard functionality, and also introduced the ability to view the environment variables.
newmanreporterskipped-testscommand-line-runneriterations
DannyDainton/basic-newman-slack-bot
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
A basic express app that allows you to run Postman collections against different environments with Newman, straight from Slack.
Contributions:30 commits, 7 PRs, 42 pushes in 5 months
apinewmanpostman-collectionsexpressruby
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