David Dangerfield
Principal Frontend Engineer at David A. Dangerfield LLC
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Dangerfield is a Principal Frontend Engineer in Saint Paul with two decades of software engineering experience and a focused specialty in mission-critical frontend systems. He combines hands-on implementation of modern JS stacks—Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Vite—with leadership roles that migrate legacy apps, build core JavaScript infrastructure, and drive product growth across companies from SmugMug to Life Time and Patterson. As a longtime consultant and founder of his own practice, he repeatedly turns spreadsheet-driven workflows into scalable web apps and has built collaborative, Google Docs–like structured authoring tools for regulated clinical workflows. He’s comfortable across the full frontend lifecycle—design systems, testing with Vitest/Playwright, GraphQL integrations, and deployment pipelines—while mentoring teams and improving engineering practices. A practical problem-solver with a Purdue MS in Computer Science, he has a proven knack for reducing operational friction (for example, automating packaging and build processes earlier in his career) and shipping experiences that measurably increase user acquisition and operational efficiency.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Purdue UniversityWestwood High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
foundation9
react8
domain-modeling8
react-component-library8
bootstrap8
web-ide8
bitcoin7
vue7
maven6
senchacmd6
vscode6
doc6
javascript-objects6
tooling6
json6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ddanger/notes-2019-fem-state-mgmt-in-react-v2
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ddanger/vue-basics
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 15 pushes in 10 days
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