Dan Fairs
Director at Neon Machines Ltd
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Fairs is a seasoned software architect, founder and director with 11+ years of hands-on experience building backend systems and scaling technical teams across startups and enterprise environments. He founded and led SecondSync through acquisition by Twitter, later managing engineering efforts at Twitter UK to deliver TV analytics and kickstart Live Video. As CTO of Condense and now through Neon Machines Ltd, he combines deep infrastructure expertise—Kubernetes, multi‑GPU/real‑time media pipelines, Go/Python microservices and cloud GPU orchestration—with practical product and hiring strategies. He has a strong track record of integrating hardware and cloud for low‑latency media, advising clients like the BBC and Universal, and institutionalising reliable observability and deployment practices. Known for translating research-led features into deployable systems, he also mentors early engineers and shapes inclusive hiring and progression frameworks.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at University of Bristol
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (134)
signing10
facebook-messenger-bot10
django9
api9
python9
runner9
flask-extensions9
facebook-messenger9
endpoint9
async8
cpp8
aiohttp8
flask8
client-server8
php8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danfairs/django-lazysignup
May 2015 - Oct 2018
django-lazysignup is a package designed to allow users to interact with a site as if they were authenticated users, but without signing up. At any time, they can convert their temporary user account to a real user account.
Contributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 5 months
pythonsigningdjangoaccountinteract
danfairs/fbmessenger
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
A python library to communicate with the Facebook Messenger API's
Contributions:9 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
python-libraryapifacebook-messenger-botpythoncommunicate
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