John Daly
Frontend Developer at Snowflake
Summary
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RockstarJohn Daly is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of full-stack experience building and optimizing web platforms for both Fortune 500 companies and startups, currently at Snowflake. He specializes in TypeScript, React, Node, and Go, and has a track record of accelerating builds and tests, automating large-scale code migrations, and cutting infrastructure costs through pragmatic platform improvements. At Convoy he owned the company-wide web framework and delivered multi-fold speedups in build and test systems while introducing automated migration tooling and testing kits. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Next.js TypeScript and Emotion workflows and rebuilt UI components (including an iPod Classic simulator) to be type-safe and performance-minded. He combines a product-focused front-end sensibility with platform-level engineering, often surfacing developer experience and maintainability gains that aren’t immediately visible to users.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
hook10
javascript10
nextjs10
typescripts10
styled-components10
emotion10
react10
typescript-types10
jsx9
testing9
swc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tvillarete/ipod-classic-js
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
An iPod Classic simulator that connects to Apple Music and Spotify. Built with React & Styled Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on front-end development within the iPod Classic simulator project. They refactored and converted the Knob component to TypeScript and hooks, improving its structure and maintainability. The user also updated and integrated React Query for data fetching, enhancing performance and cache management. Furthermore, the user added utilities to create type-safe events and implemented haptic feedback for better user interaction within the application.
reactbuilt-with-reactemulatoripodipod-classic
vercel/next.js
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
The React Framework
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 4 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the Next.js framework by implementing features related to Emotion styling and TypeScript integration. They worked on the Emotion SWC plugin, making the `jsxImportSource` configurable and adding tests. Furthermore, the user updated the `with-emotion-swc` example to use TypeScript, improving the developer experience. The user also updated the with-msw example to use TypeScript and updated the tests to preserve type-only imports for `next-image-to-legacy-image`.
reactbrowserssgserver-renderingjavascript
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