David Daniell is a Principal Software Engineer based in Atlanta with 14 years of professional experience and a deep background in full‑stack web development, particularly Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript/React UIs. He has progressed from consulting and solo development (Tinynumbers) to technical lead and principal roles at Decisiv, driving UI architecture, delivery, and cross-functional collaboration. A pragmatic TDD advocate, he has hands-on experience in test automation and has contributed QA-focused improvements to prominent open-source projects like ActiveAdmin. His career spans e-commerce, content platforms, and enterprise integrations, reflecting comfort with both legacy Java systems and contemporary Rails/React stacks. Known for balancing shipping product features with improving developer quality through tests and tooling, he brings a rare mix of independent consulting breadth and corporate technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:13 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:David focused on enhancing the quality of the Active Admin framework through test additions and modifications. They implemented unit tests to verify item counts in paginated collections, and expanded feature tests with pagination steps. Furthermore, the user corrected and improved existing tests related to batch actions and filtering. Their work primarily involved writing and adjusting tests to cover different scenarios and functionalities within the Active Admin interface.
Adds simple publishing functionality to your active record models
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
recordphpactive-recordpublishing
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David Daniell - Principal Software Engineer at Decisiv, Inc.