Dan Freeman
Software Architect at Salsify
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Freeman is a software architect with 14 years of experience, currently leading architecture and platform work at Salsify from Edinburgh. He specializes in front-end build tooling and developer experience—known as a "browser wrangler"—with significant open-source contributions to Ember CLI and DefinitelyTyped that improved build processes, imports, and TypeScript typings across the Ember ecosystem. His background spans backend reliability work (including a PHP JSON streaming parser) and QA-minded bug fixes, reflecting a pragmatic focus on correctness and maintainability. Dan combines systems-level thinking from enterprise search at Endeca with hands-on engineering and documentation improvements that make developer workflows smoother. He holds a dual BS in Computer Science and Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon, an uncommon pairing that informs his clear technical communication and attention to language in code and docs.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Linguistics, BS, Computer Science, Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (32)
unit-testing10
json-parser10
json10
static-typing10
javascript10
character-encoding10
testing10
jsonp10
ember-cli10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
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emberjs10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
May 2018 - Dec 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 19 commits, 19 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the type definitions for the DefinitelyTyped repository, particularly for JavaScript libraries and frameworks within the Ember ecosystem. They introduced and updated type definitions for core packages like `console-ui`, `core-object`, and `broccoli-plugin`, ensuring type safety and improved developer experience. Furthermore, they added or updated types related to `ember-qunit` and the Ember framework itself, including updates for strict mode and related tooling. These changes reflect a strong focus on improving the quality and maintainability of TypeScript definitions for the Ember.js ecosystem.
typescriptdefinitiondtstypingstypescript-definitions
ember-cli/ember-cli
Sep 2016 - Jul 2020
The Ember.js command line utility.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the Ember.js command-line utility by updating dependencies and addressing import issues. They modified build processes and resolved issues related to scoped packages. Additionally, the user added documentation and corrected links within the Addon API documentation, improving the project's maintainability and user experience. The user also worked on refactoring the default blueprint to use absolute imports.
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