Danny Michel
Editor-in-chief at VAR Magazine
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDanny Michel is an editor-in-chief and visual-driven publisher with 11+ years leading VAR Magazine and nybodyart.com from concept to sustained publication, blending editorial strategy with hands-on production and team leadership. Rooted in a family of artists and a lifelong passion for photography, he built a distinctive editorial aesthetic—commissioning celebrated photographers like Miko Lim to realize definitive covers and features. Based in New York, he pairs an artist’s eye with practical web design experience from a decade as a self-employed web designer, enabling seamless collaboration between creative direction and digital presentation. He also contributes front-end improvements to open-source projects such as the Jellyfin web client, bringing attention to UI details like layout, sorting, and subtitle accessibility. Known for learning by doing, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a curator’s sensibility to create visually driven, tightly executed editorial projects.
11 years of coding experience
Life, Life at School of Hard Knocks
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Github Skills (6)
jellyfin10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
html9
media8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jellyfin/jellyfin-web
Feb 2020 - May 2022
The Free Software Media System - Official Web Client
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 7 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Danny primarily focused on front-end development, particularly on the official web client's UI. They implemented visual improvements by fixing margins, padding, and applying style changes to the header and details page. The user also added features like random sorting options to the movie and TV show listings and created an option for bold subtitles. Additionally, they addressed minor code modifications based on code review feedback.
web-clientvideosreactjellyfin
dannymichel/veso
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Open source media server.
Contributions:13 PRs, 200 pushes, 195 branches in 6 months
videomedia-server
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