Daniel Tello is a Principal Software Engineer (UI) with 13 years of experience building polished front-end experiences and leading UI teams, currently based in Falls Church, Virginia. He progressed from graphic design into front-end engineering, bringing a strong visual sensibility to complex UI architectures while coaching teams at Medallia through roles from Senior Engineer to Principal. His background at Viget Labs includes hands-on contributions to open-source tooling such as the Blendid gulp-based asset pipeline, reflecting a pragmatic approach to build systems and developer workflows. Daniel blends design-first thinking with deep practical knowledge of modern front-end toolchains, enabling faster, more maintainable delivery of customer-facing interfaces. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful technical leader who bridges product, design, and engineering to ship high-quality UI at scale. He holds a BA in Graphic Design from Cedarville University, which continues to inform his focus on usable, attractive interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Graphic Design, BA Graphic Design at Cedarville University
A delicious blend of gulp tasks combined into a configurable asset pipeline and static site builder
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:193 commits, 223 PRs, 471 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel appears to have primarily focused on setting up a Gulp-based asset pipeline and a static site builder. Their contributions include the creation of a sample Gulp project and the integration of tools like Browserify, CoffeeScript, Compass, and LiveReload for asset management. They modified JavaScript, CSS, and HTML files to display a UI with the Gulp build process.
Ditch the Rails Asset Pipeline and roll your own with Gulp
Contributions:25 commits, 17 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 6 months
asset-pipelinegulprails
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