Hi, I'm Dan—a Senior Software Engineer at Dotdigital.

Senior Software Engineer at Dotdigital (Fresh Relevance)

July 2020 - Current

At Dotdigital I develop user interfaces with React, Redux, and TypeScript. Including being responsible for projects, working on larger connected feature sets, maintaining existing features, migrating older technology, along with implementing high-priority changes and fixes. I also increasingly work on backend services in Python and Node often in work involving content delivery, data processing, and reporting.

Examples of projects include: Testing & Optimization UI, Site Info Bar, SmartBlock Builder, Top and Item Level Reporting, Product Management, Product Details, UI theme overhauls.

I also assist the client scripting team by owning time critical customer facing issues and have previously supported placement students.

Over this time I have been promoted from Junior to Middle Level and then onto Senior Software Engineer.

Placement at Fresh Relevance

July 2018 - May 2019

I was responsible for integrating Fresh Relevance's system with their client's e-commerce sites. Additionally, I developed React-based user interfaces and improved the processing of user data in the backend.

University of Portsmouth

Sept 2016 - May 2020

I achieved a First in BSc Computer Science along with the British Computer Society Prize for Best Final Year Student in my course.

As my final year project I built a internet-of-things climate monitoring system with a web-app allowing users to view recorded statistics about the local climates around them. This used hardware including Raspberry Pi, micro-controllers, radio modules, sensors and batteries. With the web-app and backend built with Vue, Python (Flask), SQLite.