Dan Garner
Co-Founder And Director Of Engineering at Xibo Open Source Digital Signage
Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Garner is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with over 16 years of hands-on engineering experience and two decades building digital businesses. As Co-Founder and Director of Engineering at Xibo, he helped grow a global open-source digital signage platform used by over 48,000 organisations and 300,000 displays across 186 countries, spanning CMS and multi-platform player development. He blends backend PHP expertise—evident in contributions to the Xibo CMS repo around auth flows and stats archiving—with strategic product and cloud hosting experience. Past roles in MES delivery and a second startup demonstrate his ability to translate complex operational requirements into reliable, scalable systems. Based in Haywards Heath, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic engineering focus and a track record of shipping production-grade software at scale.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Brighton and Hove 6th Form CollegeBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Brighton
English
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Github Skills (10)
php10
backend10
auth9
apidoc9
api9
authentication9
sql8
digital-signage7
android6
okhttp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xibosignage/xibo-cms
Oct 2009 - Jan 2023
Xibo Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:139 releases, 1325 reviews, 6650 commits in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on back-end development, contributing to the Xibo Content Management System. They were involved in implementing and fixing features, specifically addressing issues related to the stats archiver and authentication code flows. These contributions involved changes to PHP files, indicating a strong understanding of the system's core logic and codebase.
cmsmanagement-systemphpxibocontent-management
xibosignage/xibo-interactive-control
Oct 2020 - Feb 2024
Library for interactively controlling an Xibo Player
Contributions:29 reviews, 9 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 4 months
controllinginteractivexibodigital-signageplayer
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