Daniel Schnacky
Software Engineer
Hudson,WI
Summary
Experienced frontend/full stack engineer in search of a challenging role in to help lead the charge to set, document, and promote FE consistency standards for engineering. Looking to make architectural decisions, contribute to work flow and processes to increase efficiency, maximize stability, and tool with automation where possible. Well-versed in developing components and design systems, implementing complex state management, data normalization, and automated testing and deployment pipelines. Focused on being a trusted teammate and source for developing habits for consistent application of best practices and single-concern component design that are both easy to reason about and easy to test.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Skills
- High-level communicator
- Accountable
- Team player
- React
- TypeScript
- GraphQL
- Cypress (Automated Tests)
- Jest (Unit Test)
- HTML
- CSS
- CI/CD deploy pipelines
Work History
Senior II Software Engineer
Dandy
11.2022 - 07.2023
- As a tech lead and full stack engineer, I worked on developing new components, refactored and tested legacy components, and stood up new tables and fields to support a more robust data model for our event-sourced workflow
- Refactored authentication and documented the process so the org better understood how the auth flow worked
- Created a variety of run books to increase velocity and promote knowledge sharing
- Delivered large epics of work from design audit, through feasibility and scoping, to iterative plan and release of code via BuildKite
- CI/CD pipeline
- React, TypeScript, GraphQL, TypeORM, Cypress
Staff Frontend Engineer
Rollbar
09.2021 - 10.2022
- I set the standards for the FE development efforts, working on frontend component design to help facilitate efficient engineering velocity and consistency in UX/UI implementation
- Also helped increase effective code coverage with tests and development standards to improve stability and reliability
- Led the schema design efforts for new and migrated REST APIs to
- GraphQL
- React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Tailwind UI, Cypress
- Daniel Schnacky - FE, 9865 dschnacky10@gmail.com
Lead UI Engineer
Target Corporation
01.2016 - 09.2020
- Led a team of 5 engineers, planning and delivering a large programmatic ad tech planning application for all of Target advertising
- I developed a system of atomic components used to compose the entire UI across 3 teams of engineers and product
- Implemented Redux to normalize and massage data structures as needed from vendor API responses
- Worked together with Java BE engineers to develop efficient APIs for effective FE and BE communication of data as well as the beginnings of implementing GraphQL APIs
- React, Redux, JS/TS, Cypress, GraphQL
Senior Software Engineer
Target Corporation
09.2014 - 12.2015
- Worked on top-of-funnel for Target.com
- Was involved with a wholesale refactor of target.com to Node/Express/React from Backbone and JSPs
- Built a small army of accessible components such as a video player and multiple product carousels to be used on Target.com - ingested by a CMS team that enriched the components with content prior to render
- Developed a11y expertise as well as API knowledge to facilitate React component instantiation and best practices
- React, Backbone, JS
- CONTRACTOR, BEST BUY — 2014
- Developed a recommendations carousel for BestBuy.com using BackboneJS and Promises
- Also built a lazy-loading mechanism for efficient product display
- Backbone, JS, Bluebird
Software Engineer
Bluestem Brands Inc.
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Built a reporting tool for CEO/leadership team using Java and BoldChat APIs as well as
- PhantomJS to fetch BoldChat data, take screenshots of the infographic output, and email to the leadership team
- Java, HTML, CSS, JS
Production Services Developer
Internet Broadcasting
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Hand coded new interactive features for news and television stations using HTML, and CSS,
- JavaScript, Java and JSPs
- Applied cross-browser compatibility and progressive enhancement techniques to enrich our offerings, adding value to existing clients and attracting new ones
- HTML, CSS, JS
Lead Web Developer
InterActive Circle
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Hand coded responsive web applications with PHP, CMS backend for seamless device-agnostic consumption of media and client control of content
- Built custom jQuery plugins for interactive embedded client site presentations
- Focus on clean, semantic markup, both reusable and modular
- HTML, CSS, JS, PHP
Web Developer
ResortsandLodges
01.2010 - 01.2011
- Converted PSD to semantic HTML/CSS/PHP websites for Concrete5 CMS Built
- Designed, prototyped, and developed custom native JavaScript applications to increase content consumption and exposure
- Wrote custom auto-presentation PHP plugin for Concrete5 and many themes for Wordpress
- HTML, CSS, JS, PHP
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Programming
Globe University
Woodbury2013
Timeline
Senior II Software Engineer
Dandy
11.2022 - 07.2023
Staff Frontend Engineer
Rollbar
09.2021 - 10.2022
Lead UI Engineer
Target Corporation
01.2016 - 09.2020
Senior Software Engineer
Target Corporation
09.2014 - 12.2015
Software Engineer
Bluestem Brands Inc.
01.2013 - 01.2014
Production Services Developer
Internet Broadcasting
01.2012 - 01.2013
Lead Web Developer
InterActive Circle
01.2011 - 01.2012
Web Developer
ResortsandLodges
01.2010 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Programming
Globe University
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