Dan Cigler
Designer at Freelance
Downers Grove, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Cigler is a multidisciplinary designer and developer with eight years of hands-on experience blending industrial design, fabrication, and full-stack software work. He founded and ran a custom furniture and home goods company after a successful Kickstarter, then pivoted into software—self-taught coding led to two promotions at Dealer Inspire where he worked on PHP/JS, AWS, Docker, and OEM integrations. Comfortable at the intersection of CAD, CNC machining, and web platforms, Dan brings a maker’s eye to production problems and a developer’s discipline to shipping code. A type 1 diabetic who channels that personal challenge into building tools to help others, he’s actively developing diabetes-management solutions alongside freelance industrial design projects. Based in Downers Grove, IL, he’s seeking to re-enter design and manufacturing roles where his combined prototyping, production, and software skills accelerate product development. Notably, his background uniquely pairs low-volume manufacturing capability with enterprise software experience—useful for product teams bridging hardware and cloud services.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial and Product Design, Industrial and Product Design at University of Illinois at ChicagoMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Western Michigan UniversityAutomotive Technology, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician, Automotive Technology, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician at Technology Center of DuPage
English, German
Github Skills (22)
dokuwiki5
sneakers5
hotel-booking4
rake4
bootswatch3
hanami3
sprockets3
ruby-on-rails3
mruby3
bootstrap3
rails3
ruby2
sms-messages2
confirmation2
stripe-payments1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dcig/bg-tracker
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
Prototype Glucose Tracker Application
Contributions:160 commits, 110 PRs, 78 pushes in 3 years 2 months
prototypetracker-applicationtrackerglucose
dcig/devsite
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
New Development portfolio site
Contributions:18 PRs, 13 pushes, 21 branches in 6 months
javascript
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