# Missy Danielsen > Senior Software Engineer at Collibra Location: Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/missy Talented software engineer with 10+ years of technology experience. Experienced in a variety of projects, from web applications to libraries. Has primarily worked with React and TypeScript, but enjoys picking up and learning new technologies. Passionate about web development and experiments with various web technologies on the side. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Collibra Jan 2023 – Present - Was hired onto a struggling team and played a pivotal role in improving team morale and ensuring that all deliverables were hit. - Approached every PR consciously, looking out for adherence to the design system and accessibility concerns. - Effectively evaluated customer bugs and resolved them well within SLA. - Used bugs as an opportunity to delve deeper into new code areas, refactor it to be more resilient, and raise new tickets for further areas of improvement. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Shortcut Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Remote - Laid the groundwork for a themed, fully accessible design system. - Ramped up quickly on each team move and made an impact from day one. - Championed accessibility by calling out issues, writing documentation, and advocating for training and a full audit. - Strived to leave code better after touching it and not push fixing it to later. - Dove deep into third party code to fix bugs and build out new features. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Chewy Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Contract through Object Partners. - Navigated a legacy monolith to add new features with Vue and JSP. - Brought team up to speed with React best practices. ### Senior Consultant @ Object Partners, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Worked on several contracts with a focus on front end technologies. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Target Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Contract through Object Partners. - Built out a React/TypeScript web application for inputting item data that was dynamically driven by a JSON schema. - Implemented GraphQL queries and mutations with Node.js and Apollo Server. - Kept the master branch stable by following a GitHub pull request workflow. - Kept a close eye on bundle size, performance, and browser compatibility to ensure a smooth user experience. - Acted as a main developer for another React application for inputting item restrictions. - Used Material UI to quickly style applications, both with Emotion and with its inbuilt JSS implementation. - Introduced custom React hooks to a project and gave an in depth overview of the changes to help the team get up to speed quicker - Designed various React components that could easily adapt to the expanding feature set - Steered team toward React and general front end best practices and expanded their focus into accessibility and semantic HTML. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Thomson Reuters Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Eagan, Minnesota, United States - Promoted from Associate to Software Engineer within half a year, then to Senior in three years for consistently meeting and exceeding expectations. - Built out local development environments with Docker Compose. - Utilized merge requests in GitLab to ensure all code was reviewed before pushed to the master branch. - Worked with user experience team to ensure look and feel maintained specifications. - Made progress on projects despite constantly changing requirements. - Developed various Java and Scala big data applications that leveraged HDFS, HBase, Hive, Avro, and Kafka. - Significantly increased and maintained testing code coverage with JUnit, Groovy, and Spock. AWS Application for Internal Central Data Registry - Used API Gateway to route requests to a Java Lambda that handled read/write logic to the master store of the registry in S3. - Set up automated deployments with Serverless Application Model and Cloud Formation to help facilitate Continuous Integration. - Led development of a React/Redux web app that was deployed on S3 and integrated with Cognito for user management. Catalog Web Application - Co-led full stack development using React, Redux, and Elasticsearch for an application that cataloged an internal central data registry. - Built out a customized build solution with Webpack, Babel, PostCSS and Jest. - Maintained high quality code with ESLint and Flow. POC Web Applications - Led front end development on three applications using AngularJS and Spring Boot that were successfully used to demo application capability to customers. - Primarily focused on the front end and flexed to work on the backend when needed. - Pioneered use of an automated front end build process that utilized Gulp, Babel, Protractor, Karma, and Jasmine. Dashboard Web Applications - Solo full stack development of two applications using JQuery and Java that are used for daily support monitoring. - Successfully transitioned them to another team. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Maverick Software Consulting Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Ames, Iowa, United States - Efficiently tested enterprise level products with FitNesse and JUnit. - Added features and continually suggested and implemented improvements to existing code bases. - Adapted quickly to new languages and projects. - Quick turnaround on a one-off request for a Perl web scraper with no prior knowledge of Perl. - Led major refactoring project. ### System Engineer Intern @ Cerner Corporation Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Kansas City, Missouri, United States - Utilized PHP, MySQL, Oracle, PDO, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to design and implement a webapp in a team environment. - Insured product quality by communicating effectively with team member, attending weekly update meetings with mentors, and testing thoroughly. ### Computer Science 227 Teaching Assistant @ Iowa State University Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Ames, Iowa, United States - Aided students in Java programming by leading a weekly lab and holding weekly office hours. - Graded Java programs and provided students with constructive feedback. - Implemented and tested assignments before release to students. ## Education ### BS in Computer Science Iowa State University Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/missy-danielsen-34194539 --- Source: https://flows.cv/missy JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/missy/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22