<!DOCTYPE html><html class="no-js" lang="en-US"> <head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>Danny Garcia | Engineer</title><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover"><meta name="theme-color" content="#000000"><meta name="description" content="Danny Garcia, senior frontend engineer at Shopify. Building nice things for good people."><meta name="author" content="Danny Garcia"><link rel="canonical" href="https://danny-garcia.com/"><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Danny Garcia | Blog" href="/rss.xml"><script>document.documentElement.classList.remove('no-js');</script><link rel="stylesheet" href="/global.css"></head> <body> <main> <script type="module">document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){document.documentElement.classList.add("loaded")},!1);</script> <h1 class="logo "> <a href="/">Danny <br>Garcia</a> </h1>  <div class="canvas-container"></div> <p class="intro type-primary">Senior frontend engineer with over a decade of experience building nice things for good&nbsp;people.</p> <section class="work-timeline" style="margin-top: var(--v-space);"> <header class="timeline-entry timeline-header"> <h2 class="timeline-co type-header">Work</h2> </header> <article class="timeline-entry"> <h3 class="timeline-co type-primary"><a href="https://shopify.com">Shopify</a> <span class="timeline-time type-secondary">2024–Present</span></h3> <div class="timeline-description"> <p>
Engineering on the Quality &amp; Trust team.
</p> </div> </article> <article class="timeline-entry"> <h3 class="timeline-co type-primary"><a href="https://ambrook.com">Ambrook</a> <span class="timeline-time type-secondary">2023–2024</span></h3> <div class="timeline-description"> <p>Consistently shipped full-stack features that directly addressed user feedback, contributing to the improvement of our Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric from ~30% to &gt;60%. These projects enhanced user workflows in bookkeeping and payment/invoice management.</p> <p>Led a series of client-side performance projects that improved UI interaction and navigation speeds up to 93% across desktop and native platforms, achieving &lt;400ms P99 latency in key workflows. Helped establish a "measure-first" engineering culture, improving team effectiveness for time spent on performance efforts.</p> <p>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.</p> </div> </article> <article class="timeline-entry"> <h3 class="timeline-co type-primary"><a href="https://stripe.com">Stripe</a> <span class="timeline-time type-secondary">2021–2022</span></h3> <div class="timeline-description"> <p>
Helped launch the <a href="https://stripe.com/apps">Stripe Apps platform</a> to merchants and developer partners.
</p> <ul> <li>Proposed, wrote technical designs, documented, and implemented various platform features and components for the <a href="https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-apps/reference/extensions-sdk-api">distributed UI toolkit</a>.</li> </ul> <p>
Successfully shipped a <strong>redesign of the Stripe Dashboard navigation</strong> that led to a measurable improvement in user engagement.
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Architected and patented part of an <strong>internal view container mechanism</strong>.
</p> </div> </article> <article class="timeline-entry"> <h3 class="timeline-co type-primary"><a href="https://apple.com">Apple</a> <span class="timeline-time type-secondary">2014–2021</span></h3> <div class="timeline-description"> <p>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 <a href="https://apple.com">apple.com</a>.</p> <p>I also spearheaded collaborative efforts with designers while leading large teams of talented developers.</p> </div> </article> <article class="timeline-entry"> <h3 class="timeline-co type-primary">RED Interactive <span class="timeline-time type-secondary">2012–2014</span></h3> <div class="timeline-description"> <p>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.</p> </div> </article> </section> <script type="module" src="/_astro/index.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.CVxE7Qu6.js"></script>  <footer> <div class="footer-content"> <p>You can follow me on <a href="https://www.threads.net/@dannygarcia">Threads</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dannygarcia/">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannygarcia1">LinkedIn</a>. I read every <a href="mailto:hey@danny-garcia.com">email</a>.</p> </div> </footer> </main> <script data-goatcounter="https://dannygarcia.goatcounter.com/count" async src="//gc.zgo.at/count.js"></script> </body> </html>