Daniel Lunde
Senior Principal Software Engineer at IGN Entertainment
Bogart, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Lunde is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building scalable web and media platforms for the entertainment industry, currently leading engineering at IGN Entertainment. He is a full‑stack practitioner comfortable across Ruby on Rails, React, Node and modern ES6 patterns, with deep operational experience designing AWS-based infrastructure, CI/CD and observability. Daniel has driven large migrations and bespoke systems—moving Funny Or Die from Rackspace to a VPC-backed AWS architecture, automating per-developer staging environments, and integrating multi-bitrate video pipelines—while also shipping front-end features like schedulable homepages and dynamic content grids. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he recently enhanced an AI-powered rich-text editor with HTML serialization hooks and advanced table/colspan support that bridge HTML attributes into Slate props. He pairs hands-on implementation with long-term architectural thinking and a knack for turning complex media workflows into resilient, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Github Skills (14)
html10
deserialization10
typescript10
data-serialization10
typescripts10
wysiwyg10
slate10
react10
typescript-types10
serialization10
javascript9
testing8
shadcn-ui4
ai4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
udecode/plate
Oct 2020 - May 2021
Rich-text editor with AI and shadcn/ui
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily involve enhancing the rich-text editor's functionality. They added the capability to customize HTML serialization, including options to override default rendering for elements and leaves. The user also implemented the storage of HTML attributes during deserialization and provided a mechanism to map these attributes to Slate's props. Additionally, the user expanded the table story to showcase the colspan feature and made general improvements.
airich-text-editorslatewysiwygreact
danlunde/slate-plugins
Oct 2020 - May 2021
🔌 Next-gen slate plugins
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 14 branches in 6 months
reactslate-pluginsslatenext-gentypescript
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