Hi, I'm

Daniel Markbreiter

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I'm Daniel Markbreiter

For the past 4 years, I've used technology to make natural history collections accessible and fun. I use cutting edge web-based technologies to bring valuable research to life and visualize geospatial data.

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breiterd@gmail.com

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972-955-1528

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Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

Skills

Frontend

Tailwind
Adobe
Next.js
React
Sass
Bootstrap

Backend

Python
Flask
PostgreSQL
Node.js
PHP
MongoDB
Strapi

Tools

GitHub
Figma
Digital Ocean
GCP
Jira
Asana

Projects

City Nature Challenge Project

City Nature Challenge

Converted the City Nature Challenge's site from an outdated WordPress site to a Next.js frontend and Strapi backend and created a new design system. When the City Nature Challenge occurs, serverless functions provide live data to a dashboard.

Next.js
Strapi
Tailwind
WordPress
Node.js
City Nature Challenge Project

SoCal Fossil Map

For the Natural History Museum of LA County's newest exhibit, LA Underwater, I designed a flask app that queries museum collection databases, cahces responses using MongoDB and visualizes data using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.

Flask
Python
MongoDB
Sass
ArcGIS
Next.js
City Nature Challenge Project

nhm-ui

Created a React component library for the Natural History Museum of LA County that extends the design system of nhm.org. The library is used in the museum's websites, digital interactives and is available on npm.

Storybook
Jest
TypeScript
Tailwind
ArcGIS
React

Experience

Web Developer

Natural Hisotry Museum of Los Angeles County

  • Maintained LAMP stack applications and Drupal sites.
  • Developed Flask, Node.js, Next.js web applications.
  • Maintained Apache/CentOS and Ubuntu/Ngnix web and application servers
  • Rewrote jQuery/Bootstrap frontends in React and Tailwind CSS
  • Administered critical service accounts such as Pantheon, DigitalOcean, GitHub
  • Reviewed less senior developer's code in collaborative projects
  • Created and enforced coding standards and git workflows
  • Wrote modular serverless backend serverices written in Python and Node.js
  • Created data pipeline from collections databases to postgresql and mongoDB.
  • Developed API integrations and mapped fields from target and source databases
09/2021 - current

Assistant Collections Manager

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

  • Developed Flask app for museum exhibit.
  • Wrote Python scripts to automate data cleaning workflows.
  • Created Python app that read barcodes and renamed files with taxonomic names
  • Ingested data from museum collection databases into MongoDB.
10/2019 - 09/2021

GIS Analyst

California American Water

  • Managed water pipeline GIS for CalAM's Southern California District.
  • Wrote Python scripts to ingest recently acquired water districts' legacy data.
  • Ran custom SQL queries to perform maintain database and write reports.
  • Managed GIS Interns and GIS Technicians
07/2018 - 09/2019