Danny
Garcia

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

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.