# Danny Michaelis

> Senior Software Engineer | React | JavaScript | Mentor | Agile | CSS | Frontend | Start-Up Experience | Node.js

Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dannymichaelis

Inquisitive, enthusiastic, and teaches with rigor and curiosity. Bends the latest tech to simplify understanding. Creates interactive and explorable explanations to help topics stick.  Presenter at DCJS.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ ESPN
Jan 2022 – Present | Washington DC-Baltimore Area

### Frontend Technical Lead @ Mapware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Mentor team members to help improve their development skills and intuition
Communicate with other teams to align priorities and effort
Participate in daily development and code reviews for a mid-scale web application
Iterate on and enforce best practices and standards

### Frontend Engineer @ Lab49
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Contributes to a commercial web application with over 100,000 users in beta testing (built in React and Redux)
Collaborates directly with client stakeholders to ensure project integrity and stability
Built experimental dashboard for service health reporting
Built UI for financial web platform with modern Javascript

### Software Engineer @ Planet3
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Led a four person global team to build a web app using JQuery and Handlebars. The MVP app was built in four months for 10,000 pilot users
Initiated a process to review and updated development practices and standards by creating custom ESLint rules
Utilized user (student and teacher) feedback on MVP to build a successful second iteration app, which was deployed with updates on a weekly basis
Interacted directly with teams across the company; product, sales, education, game development, systems architecture

### Software Engineer @ Persista Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale CA.
Member of a five person start-up and contributed to all aspects of the product including funding meetings
Built a multi-platform application as a full stack JavaScript developer
Used React and Redux.js to create UI components that could be shared across a web app, mobile web app, and chrome extension

### Software Engineer @ AOL
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Baltimore, Maryland
Developed, planned, and led a team to build a mobile prototype for a sales team
Utilized Angular.js to develop UI and business logic for large scale web app
Built internal metrics dashboard for the product team
Designed original mobile specific interactive ad format

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Maryland
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | University Of Maryland
Worked with professor to develop experiment course 'Introduction to Software Engineering'
Built projects and exercises so students would gradually learn the principles of programing and Python through building incremental parts for a small environmental simulation and running a simple creature AI 
Developed simulation and AI for students to replicate over the course of the semester
Assisted students in classroom on material


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Maryland
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danny-michaelis-6414bb88

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Last updated: 2026-03-22