Jered Danielson is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience blending UX design, prototyping, and front-end engineering to build polished, user-focused web applications. He led the development of a React/TypeScript/Apollo webapp at Indeed that now serves millions monthly and built tools to convert resume PDFs into structured training data for ML. Comfortable shipping everything from high-fidelity prototypes to large-scale production UIs, he mentors teams and improves developer workflows through tooling and process. His open-source contributions include practical UI fixes and enhancements to the popular Sketch Measure plugin, showing attention to detail like correct baseline height and improved export zooming. A former Air Force boom operator, he pairs disciplined operational experience with creative technical problem solving and a constant curiosity for emerging front-end patterns.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Interaction Design, Bachelor’s Degree Interaction Design at University of Washington
Design, Design at Seattle Central College
Design, Design at North Dakota State University
Design, Design at Minnesota State University Moorhead
Make it a fun to create spec for developers and teammates
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Jered focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Sketch Measure plugin. They implemented features to display the correct text `baseLineHeight` in the UI, particularly when the `lineHeight` value is zero. They also fixed bugs related to the character spacing value, ensuring correct display of measurements. Furthermore, the user modified the zoom functionality in the spec export by increasing the zoom range from 25% to 400%.
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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