Daniel Mcquiston
Principal Software Engineer at CHG Healthcare
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Mcquiston is a Principal Software Engineer with over 11 years of full-stack experience, currently driving architectural and delivery work at CHG Healthcare from Salt Lake City. He combines a passion for fast, interactive web UIs with a backend focus on data modeling, performance optimization, and reliable microservices. Daniel has led small engineering teams, mentored peers, and launched production-critical tools built with Electron, Vue, Node.js, and a variety of databases including MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, and Redis. His background as an IT help desk specialist and server administrator gives him a pragmatic, user-focused lens for translating end-user needs into technical requirements. He’s motivated by shaving milliseconds off transactions, automating workflows, and eliminating long-standing bugs to improve user productivity. Outside of product work he enjoys building automation with code and has a track record of shipping both desktop and cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at Utah State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma, High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tooele High SchoolAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Salt Lake Community College
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (99)
cookie10
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javascript9
ruby9
docker-image9
pdf-reader9
homebrew9
ajax9
nodejs9
shell8
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canvas-lms8
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
deHugo/hid-robot
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Simulates keypresses based on HID input
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years
hidbluetoothusbrobotkeyboard
danielmcq/scrape-afcu
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
A screen scraper for America First Credit Union written in ES
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
americacreditcredit-unionscrapingscraper
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