Daniel Waldow

Full Stack Engineer @Risksmart

Manchester, GB

Full-Stack Engineer at RiskSmart building an enterprise platform used by large financial institutions and heavily regulated organisations.I deliver high-impact product features and platform foundations across a large TypeScript monorepo.Delivering a New Product- Sole engineer responsible for building RiskSmart\'s Third Party Risk Management questionnaire system, a core component of our fifth product. Designed and delivered a flexible form designer that lets customers create bespoke questionnaires with multiple field types, a drag-and-drop interface for reordering questions and sections, conditional branching logic that shows or hides questions based on previous answers, template versioning with automatic archiving and a separate portal that third parties access to complete and submit responses. This module is a key commercial differentiator and a direct driver of new customer acquisition and cross-sell opportunities.Design System & Component Library- Leading the build of a custom, React component library to replace the platform\'s existing vendor UI framework. Built the foundation from the ground up including design tokens, core components, Storybook documentation with autodocs, Chromatic visual regression testing and CI-integrated automated interaction testing. This is a strategic investment that gives the team full control over our UI, removes vendor lock-in, and accelerates feature delivery.Configurable UI at Scale- Built a reusable filter ribbon framework and rolled it out across 12+ data registers platform-wide, giving every user personalised, persistent filter bars with configurable drag-to-reorder support.Platform Engineering- Driving modernisation across our stack by migrating all state management to Zustand, upgrading build tooling, and improving CI/CD pipelines. 160+ PRs,~107k lines shipped.Tech I work with daily: React, TypeScript, Vite, TailwindCSS, tRPC, Zustand, Storybook, Playwright, Vitest, Turborepo, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS

The College of Teachers, London

Certificate/Diploma, Educational Studies

UNSW

Bachelor’s Degree, Medical Science

Coder Academy

Diploma of IT, Computer Software Engineering