Daniel Harris
12 years of experience
Backend developer with 12 years focused on the technical foundations, reliability, and structure underneath a template.
About
Daniel is the most experienced engineer on the team, with 12 years working on backend systems where reliability is the whole job. He thinks about data structures, integrations, and the parts of a build that most buyers never see but every buyer depends on. He is calm about surface polish and demanding about foundations.
When he reviews a template he examines the structure underneath the design: how content is modeled, how integrations are set up, and whether the technical foundation would stay stable as a site grows and connects to other tools. His scores reward templates with a solid base, and he is unsparing about ones that are impressive on top and shaky underneath.
Areas of expertise
- Technical foundations
- Data and content structure
- Integrations
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Engineering robustness
What they look for
Daniel looks for a sound technical foundation: sensible data structures, stable integrations, and a base that scales. He flags templates that are polished on the surface but weak underneath.
Role in the scoring process
As one of the five development reviewers, this reviewer scores the build quality of every template independently. Those five independent dev scores are averaged into the published Dev Score.
The published Overall Score is the average of the Design Score and the Dev Score. Read more on the scoring methodology page.