Dan Ward (@warlyware)

Senior Frontend + Blockchain Developer

Cardinal Labs cardinal.so

Sole full time frontend developer at a premier Solana services platform and open source protocol. Used TS/JS, Next.js, React, Tailwind, Cardinal, Solana.

• Built all landing pages on https://www.cardinal.so/ by hand via Figma mocks using React + TailwindCSS
• Worked to improve and refine the UI/UX on https://stake.cardinal.so/
• Built UI dashboards for saving customization data on the Solana blockchain
• Built out a complex and elegant creation workflow for stake pool creation on https://stake.cardinal.so/admin
• Worked on integrating protocol level code with multiple frontends dApps.

Solana Blockchain Developer

Swamp Labs narentines.com

Part time contract work for Solana NFT project.

• Built raffle site that sells raffle entries for Solana SPL tokens (cryptocurrency)
• Built custom NFT staking platform for Solana SPL tokens (cryptocurrency)
• Created burn app ( solpyre.com ) in conjunction with Narentines project

Senior Frontend Developer

DesoMessenger desomessenger.com

Worked with a small startup to build out the frontend on a sophisticate blockchain messaging app.

Senior Frontend Developer & Manager

Where's Weed wheresweed.com

Served as senior front end developer on cannabis dispensary locator app.

• Facilitated transition from SVN to git and GitHub
• Accepted front end team management role at the end of 2021
• Consistently surfaced and helped with the adoption of best practices and new technologies to improve user experience.

Senior Front End Developer

Peapod peapod.com

Worked on the front end in a contract position with large company building a grocery delivery app.

Chief Technology Officer

Herbfluence herbfluence.com

Social media influencer marketing platform

• In charge of all technical hires and architected entire stack from scratch.
• Built with a Vue powered frontend, and a Node powered middleware layer and serverless functions. All Technologies: JavaScript (ES6+), Vue, Nuxt, Vuex (Redux), Hasura (GraphQL + Postgres SQL), Tailwind CSS, Node, Express, Apollo, Firebase (Authentication, Functions, Storage, and Analytics), and Passport.js. Hosted on cloud-based provider Heroku, uses Sentry and LogRocket for error reporting, and integrates with the Paypal and Refersion APIs.
• Served as lead developer, team lead, dev ops engineer, and SCRUM master

Web Technology Consultant

Marathon Consulting marathonus.com

Worked on extensive rebuild of legacy system for Caterpillar Marine.

• Quickly adapted to using technologies new to me, such as NgRx and RxJS
• Built complex flexbox layouts by hand with Angular 6, CSS, and HTML

Software Developer

For Rent / Costar forrent.com

Apartment listings website.

• Served as architect, lead developer, and sole frontend developer on ForRent.com enterprise business dashboard app Market Profile, powered by AngularJS, Angular Material, and D3, with custom authorization and authentication.
• Lead a small team in a greenfield rearchitecture of ForRent's college focused sister site ForRentUniversity.com, an SSR app built in Nuxt, Vue and Node.
• Worked with R&D team to develop a mobile video chat platform, ForRent Live. During this project I learned how to build mobile apps with React Native, and how to work with live streaming video.
• Worked with Angular (1/2/4) + TypeScript and Node on ForRent.com, visited by over 500,000 users daily at that time, as well as enterprise apartment messaging app Community Messenger.