Christian Danielsen

About Christian Danielsen

Senior engineer with 12 years of experience building performant, first-time quality web applications. Proven ability to integrate quickly into teams, master complex product domains, and deliver high-impact UI features while improving engineering tooling and processes. Extensive remote experience with a strong async-first collaboration mindset. Proactively and thoughtfully engaging with emerging AI tools to improve development velocity, create innovative tooling and supercharge learning new skills.Dog named after Walter Cronkite.Learn more athotmess.codesgithub.com/cdanielsen

Experience

1. Senior Frontend Engineer

   Mural

   Nov 2023 — Present

   Built an internal MCP server to expose API endpoints to AI agents, enabling automated environment setup and reducing test data seeding time by 90%.• Technical frontend lead on implementing critical web interface RBAC controls for updated permissions system across the Mural app (TypeScript, React, Figma)• Technical lead on large initiative to overhaul an administrative user management panel by developing an engineering plan, coordinating and unblocking implementation tasks, providing regular status updates to key stakeholders, and delivering a key new feature that unblocked potential contracts worth millions of dollars in revenue• Developed a technical talk for an internal company conference on using observability tooling (Datadog RUM) to monitor for/intercept frontend performance issues using industry standard core web vitals metrics• Engaged contributor at the team, department and organizational level, including developing and demoing engineering tooling, improving technical documentation and runbooks, writing and commenting on RFC documents, and leading a technical book club

Education

• Portland State University

  Master of Education (M.Ed.), Curriculum and Instruction

  2008 — 2009

• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  Cultural Studies/Spanish Immersion

  2004 — 2005

• University of California, Davis

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations

  2000 — 2005

• Epicodus

  Web Development

  2014 — 2014

Skills

• Json Schema
• E-Learning
• QA Automation
• Teaching
• Curriculum Design
• Tdd
• Jest
• Digital Media
• Pair Programming
• Sql
• Jquery
• Redux
• Html
• Reporting
• Testing
• Classroom
• React.js
• Contract Testing
• Ajax
• Enzyme
• Agile
• Javascript
• Ruby on Rails
• Editing
• Css
• Blogging
• Research
• Git
• Ruby
• Written Communication