David Mcnamara
Senior Frontend Developer at Phorest Salon Software
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Mcnamara is a Senior Frontend Developer with 16 years of professional experience building high-quality, responsive web applications for organizations ranging from Mozilla and Microsoft to startups and nonprofits. He specialises in modern web standards (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and frameworks, with deep hands-on experience in frontend architectures, canvas/graphics apps, and GIS-enabled web systems. David has led technical teams and projects—serving as Technical Lead at Ushahidi and Senior Frontend Developer at Phorest—bringing product-focused engineering, mentoring, and automated QA practices to production delivery. His work spans the full stack surface when needed, including API design, build pipelines and GeoDjango/PostGIS integrations, and several projects have won awards and even appeared at MoMA. Passionate about open source and “tech for good,” he combines pragmatic engineering with a long-standing involvement in browser and Mozilla ecosystems. Based in Ireland, he brings a rare mix of visual/UX-driven frontend craft and geospatial domain expertise.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information & Communication Technology, II.1, Bachelor's Degree, Information & Communication Technology, II.1 at Trinity College, DublinMaster's Degree, Geographical Information Systems, Pass with Distinction, Master's Degree, Geographical Information Systems, Pass with Distinction at University of Leeds
Github Skills (20)
api9
firefox9
mobile-application9
flow-router9
plivo7
redux7
twilio6
sms6
laravel5
javascript4
php4
emberjs3
ember3
css2
prettify2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ushahidi/tenfour
Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
API For TenFour
Contributions:495 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
api
mackers/xultris
Apr 2010 - Dec 2011
Contributions:22 commits in 1 year 7 months
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