Aidan Daly

Background

About Aidan Daly

Full-stack engineer in the travel industry with current focus on a white-label e-commerce web application. Strong foundation in modern web development principles including scalable front and backend application patterns. Responsible for leading data integrations and modernizing legacy pricing and availability engines, with a heavy emphasis on observability and pragmatism My experience covers both equal parts front and back end development as I take ownership of every step in the development process, from augmenting the backend infrastructure through to the user experience on our frontend. After working on various backend-only features like static data auditing and expanding our property integrations pipeline I am looking for a role with further exposure to backend development, with a greater degree of responsibility and ownership- Other experience includes RESTful API development, plugins for Strapi CMS, data integration layers and Node.js/TypeScript packages interfacing with external services like Figma. Frontend contributions cover complex feature development and app optimisation, all using React and Next.js. Outside of professional work, I actively build and maintain several personal projects: • C++/ OpenGL application performing energy simulations using hamiltonian mechanics • A game engine written in C# • A photography portfolio web app for the University of Chester This has provided me with the following experience, albiet non-commercial: • Symbolic differentiation • Runtime lifecycle management • Event-driven architecture • Entity Component Systems (ECS) • State machines and session orchestration • Serialization and save-state logic • Asset processing and runtime content management