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Hi! I'm Danielle, an engineer and manager in San Francisco. 🌉

For the last several years I've been helping make GraphQL easier to build with and use at Apollo. I love building products for the web, solving problems with craftsmanship and code.

In my time at Apollo I've been a friend, a manager, a developer, a product manager, a recruiter, an advocate, and more. At the end of the day, I just want to make tools that help people and feel great to use. I care much more about the people I'm working with than the day-to-day specifics of my job.

Some talks I've done:
Stack Overflow Podcast | March 18, 2022
The Secret to Successful Graph Onboarding | GraphQL Summit 2021
GraphQL is for Everyone | GraphQL Galaxy 2020
Querying Data Faster | GraphQL Summit 2020
The GraphQL Developer Experience | GraphQL Summit 2019
Devtools for GraphQL | GraphQL Summit 2017 (lightning)
Schema-First Development with GraphQL | O'Reilly Fluent Conference 2017
Devtools for GraphQL | React Europe 2017 (lightning)
Navigating Your Transition to GraphQL | GraphQL Summit 2016
A few hobby projects:(most of my spare dev time is spent on Apollo things)
Operation Homeworld | A GraphQL-based puzzlehunt complete with riddles, servers, and query writing.
Splendor | A web version of the board game, made for friends during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Analog Clock | A 24-hour clock that represents timezones across the world.
Grouper | MIT 6.813 class project that won the Best Final Project award.