Brooklyn · New York City

Senior Full-Stack EngineerReact, TypeScript, Python/Django

Hello! My name is Damian Danner and I am a full stack engineer with over 4 years of experience delivering and owning features end-to-end in large scale healthcare analytics platforms, processing more than 25M+ assessments and supporting over 8,000 facilities across the US. After some intentional time off, I am looking forward to joining a product-focused team where I can make an impact and work alongside other talented engineers!

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Experience

Impact across products, systems, and teams

Senior Software Engineer

Netsmart
Overland Park, KS (Remote)Mar 2025 – Nov 2025
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Python
  • Django
  • GraphQL
  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Led standardization of frontend architecture, UX, and design systems across five enterprise healthcare applications, helping unify previously separate products through a consistent look and feel, shared component patterns, and single sign-on across different domains, supporting an upsell strategy targeting 8,000+ SNF facilities.
  • Led an emergency rewrite of a health inspection scoring engine to meet a new CMS regulatory requirement, independently interpreting federal documentation and shipping the core logic in two weeks against a one-to-two month estimate, with zero client complaints.
  • Maintained and scaled HIPAA-compliant microservices supporting CMS assessment processing and data validation across systems handling 25M+ healthcare assessments.
  • Coordinated a 4–5 person offshore engineering team by scoping work, unblocking architecture and environment issues, and onboarding engineers to unfamiliar parts of the codebase.
  • Served as one of four engineers trusted to approve frontend pull requests, helping uphold quality across a large-scale React/TypeScript codebase spanning multiple enterprise applications.

Software Engineer

Netsmart
Overland Park, KS (Remote)Oct 2022 – Mar 2025
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Python
  • Django
  • GraphQL
  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Built Django and Elasticsearch endpoints for new healthcare analytics workflows, including admissions and case mix reporting tied to CMS requirements.
  • Built reusable Recharts components adopted across four analytics areas, reducing chart bugs and improving UX.
  • Led migration of a legacy frontend to MUI, standardizing design patterns and reducing visual regressions.
  • Consolidated frontend architecture across 25+ analytics tools by replacing one-off components with extensible TypeScript patterns and moving filter state to URL search params.
  • Delivered analytics features end-to-end across systems processing 25M+ healthcare assessments, turning complex clinical and operational data into client-facing reporting tools.

Associate Software Engineer

Viagio Technologies

Kansas City, MOMay 2022 – Oct 2022
  • React
  • .NET
  • Stabilized client codebases by auditing and upgrading deprecated dependencies, rewriting affected components to restore functionality and unblock active development.

Selected work

Current software projects

Open-source library · v0.1.1

adaptive-forms

A config-driven React form layer that uses one definition for a full desktop layout and a stepped mobile flow. It combines an extensible field registry, React Hook Form integration, and centralized validation, navigation, and error-presentation policies.

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Independent product

howrthey

A concert-discovery and social application. Scheduled Ticketmaster sync jobs normalize upcoming shows into the application's own data model, while the social feed connects attendance, reviews, comments, likes, and follows.

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Independent product

workout-logger

A full-stack workout logging app built for lifters who want to track progressive overload over time — not just log sets - providing real time flexibilty to create your workouts on the fly.

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Writing

Engineering notes and case studies

Open source · React formsWhy I Built Adaptive FormsWhy a repeated product pattern became a focused library for responsive layouts, validation, and accessibility.Architecture · Next.jsArchitecting a Flexible Workout Logger in Next.jsA tour of the UI, server-state, API, and relational data boundaries in an independent workout tracker.

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