James Daniels
Advisor at Outcome
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Daniels is a technology and product executive with roughly two decades of experience building startups, developer platforms, and ecosystems, currently advising on data and ML platform strategy. He blends founder and operator instincts—former President & CEO of AppBlade and multiple early-stage CTO roles—with senior product and developer-relations leadership at Google Cloud, where he steered Firebase, web SDKs, CLIs, and open-source projects. James is a hands-on full‑stack engineer and release manager who has contributed notably to high-profile Firebase repos (AngularFire, firebase-tools, firebase-js-sdk, reactfire), improving authentication, Firestore integration, CLI developer experience, and CI/CD automation. Equally comfortable shaping API roadmaps and fixing critical zone/TypeScript issues, he connects engineering execution to adoption, community, and business outcomes. Based in Cambridge with roots in product-driven engineering, he also runs small-scale ISP ops and brings pragmatic systems thinking to scaling, security, and developer workflows.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Maine
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firebase
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firebase-storage
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google-cloud-functions
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Github Skills (65)
testing10
authentication10
azure-functions10
firebase-cloud-functions10
emberjs10
build-automation10
backend10
firebase10
paypal10
javascript10
sh10
typescripts10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
angular10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
angular/angularfire
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
Angular + Firebase = ❤️
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:110 releases, 67 reviews, 523 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the AngularFire project by enhancing the authentication and database functionalities, particularly in relation to Firebase's Firestore. They added support for new features related to authentication and data handling by implementing new APIs, and also updated dependencies to keep up with Firebase releases. The user also refactored and optimized code for better performance and addressed various zone-related issues, ensuring compatibility across different environments and versions.
realtimeangular-libraryrxjsfirestorecloud-functions
FirebaseExtended/emberfire
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
The officially supported adapter for using Firebase with Ember
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 62 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:James contributed significantly to the `emberfire` project, focusing on enhancing the integration of Firebase with Ember.js. Their work included updating the Ember try scenarios for different Ember Data versions and integrating Code Climate for quality analysis. They also addressed various bugs, implemented features like headless Chrome testing, and supported new features, such as Firestore and Firebase JS SDK 5.
firebase-sdkperformance-monitoringfirestorefirebasejavascript
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