Dan Foad
Lead Developer at Cambridge University Press & Assessment
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Foad is a Lead Developer with 11 years of experience building digital products for large organisations, currently shaping new offerings at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. He has progressed through hands-on engineering and team leadership roles at Sky and NOW, blending product-focused development with people management and delivery accountability. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he has a track record of modernising legacy systems and shipping responsive, user-centred solutions under business constraints. Studying for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence after a BEng in Computer Systems Engineering, he pairs practical engineering instincts with an increasing data-driven, research-informed perspective. Notably, his background includes freelance and consultancy work where he established interface frameworks and rapid-release QA practices that scaled into production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Gravesend Grammar SchoolMsc Artificial Intelligence, Msc Artificial Intelligence at University of BathBEng (Hons) Computer Systems Engineering, BEng (Hons) Computer Systems Engineering at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (43)
visual-studio-code10
ios10
webdriver10
selenium10
electron10
microsoft10
windows10
typescript10
cross-platform10
vscode-extension10
editor10
automation10
github-api-v410
visual-studio10
android10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Reddit-Web-Dev/Reddit-Web-Dev.github.io
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:62 commits, 44 PRs, 51 pushes in 11 days
webdevslackslack-team
foad/eslint-plugin-listeners
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
ESLint plugin for preventing memory leaks around event listeners
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 13 commits in 2 years 4 months
leaksmemorymemory-leakseslintevent-listeners
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