Danny Michaelis
Senior Software Engineer at ESPN
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Michaelis is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building user-focused web applications and leading front-end teams across startups and enterprise environments. Currently at ESPN, he brings deep React/Redux and modern JavaScript expertise honed through roles as a frontend lead and engineer on high‑usage platforms and experimental dashboards. Known for teaching with rigor, he creates interactive, explorable explanations to help others learn complex topics—work reflected in past teaching and presentation roles like DCJS. Danny pairs hands-on implementation (from MVPs for 10k users to commercial apps in beta) with mentorship and process improvements, such as custom linting rules to raise code quality. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he combines curiosity-driven learning with practical product impact and cross-team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (58)
dcjs8
jquery-plugin8
hierarchical7
physics7
render7
physics-engine7
extendscript6
viewer6
ajax6
javascript6
animation6
react5
nodejs5
interaction5
console-log5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
easilyBaffled/console.tap
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
The console function Modern Javascript has been missing
Contributions:5 releases, 57 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
consolejavascriptmissingnodejsmodern-javascript
easilyBaffled/points-streaks
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 PRs, 130 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 4 months
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