Danny
Garcia

Senior frontend engineer with over a decade of experience building nice things for good people.

Writing

AI and the loss of craft Wednesday, March 5, 2025

In my day we wrote our CSS by hand, line by line, and we liked it! An early pattern observation.

Hobbies as Hobbies Friday, February 28, 2025

I'm something of systemizing mechanizer myself.

Listen Later Thursday, February 27, 2025

Found a thing that turns articles saved for later into a podcast feed.

Tinkercad Wednesday, February 26, 2025

You too can 3D.

Hands off (my) HTML Tuesday, February 25, 2025

In my day we wrote our HTML by hand, line by line, and we liked it!

Talking institutions Monday, February 24, 2025

How to waste away squeezing value out of multi-billion/trillion dollar corporations.

In-N-Out Sunday, February 23, 2025

The illusion of simplicity and the value of consistency.

Writing here now Saturday, February 22, 2025

The beginning of a series of articles written into the void without much refinement.

Work

Shopify 2024–Present

Engineering on the Quality & Trust team.

Ambrook 2023–2024

Consistently shipped full-stack features that directly addressed user feedback, contributing to the improvement of our Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric from ~30% to >60%. These projects enhanced user workflows in bookkeeping and payment/invoice management.

Led a series of client-side performance projects that improved UI interaction and navigation speeds up to 93% across desktop and native platforms, achieving <400ms P99 latency in key workflows. Helped establish a "measure-first" engineering culture, improving team effectiveness for time spent on performance efforts.

Designed and engineered client-side infrastructure features including a cross-platform modal routing system, an extensible search and filter system for various list views, and the implementation of a functional and visual cross-platform design system redesign.

Stripe 2021–2022

Helped launch the Stripe Apps platform to merchants and developer partners.

  • Proposed, wrote technical designs, documented, and implemented various platform features and components for the distributed UI toolkit.

Successfully shipped a redesign of the Stripe Dashboard navigation that led to a measurable improvement in user engagement.

Architected and patented part of an internal view container mechanism.

Apple 2014–2021

I designed prototypes, built custom tooling for designers, and engineered web and native applications across various platforms. Most of my work has launched as interactive web experiences on apple.com.

I also spearheaded collaborative efforts with designers while leading large teams of talented developers.

RED Interactive 2012–2014

Helped the front-end team to define the technical process and strategy for projects. I interviewed and evaluated candidates, assessed the team's skills to distribute appropriate workloads and coordinated with other teams to establish cross-departmental continuity. I also did hands-on development for various projects and worked with project team members to successfully ship responsive, aesthetically-pleasing, engaging user experiences for the web.