Dan Brown is a pragmatic full-stack web developer with 12 years of experience building efficient, user-focused applications and interfaces from a lean resource base. Based in East Hampshire, he has led technical development at CleverTouch and contributed substantial back-end and front-end improvements to open-source projects like BookStack and dompdf's SVG library. He thrives on self-directed learning and setting ambitious goals, which shows in work ranging from UI overhauls and CSS/JS improvements to SVG parsing refinements and connector integrations for Gen-AI tooling. Comfortable across PHP/Laravel stacks and modern front-end workflows, he blends practical problem-solving with a creator’s drive to ship useful features that improve other teams’ workflows.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma, Engineering, Triple Distinction, BTEC National Diploma, Engineering, Triple Distinction at Alton College
PROJECT MIGRATED TO CODEBERG -- The code for the main site, Includes BookStack docs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:506 commits, 141 PRs, 535 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the website code for BookStack, migrating the project to Codeberg. The commits focused on the front-end development, including updates to the HTML structure, CSS styles, and JavaScript libraries. The user improved the site's user interface by updating styling, content, and general layout.
A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:181 releases, 19 reviews, 3566 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the development of core functionality within the BookStack platform, specifically focusing on improvements related to the content copying feature. Their work involved adding considerations for copy actions, modifying database structure and adding new UI component. The changes touch upon the user interface, code, and database functionality indicating backend focus with a degree of frontend work. Further modifications include adjustments to the webhooks and image handling.
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