Dan Grout
Senior Software Designer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDan Grout is a Senior Software Designer with nine years of experience who blends an architectural mindset with full-stack engineering to translate complex visions into systematic, user-centered software. He has led teams and delivered scalable fintech and insurtech solutions, driving database architecture, cloud integrations, and CI/CD while fostering continuous improvement. Comfortable across mobile and web stacks—Xamarin/MAUI, Flutter, React/React Native, Swift/Kotlin—and with experience in embedded IoT and robotics, he bridges device-level constraints and cloud services. A former practicing architect with an MArch, he brings uncommon strengths in spatial thinking, visual design, and client-facing leadership to software product architecture. Based in Cape Town, he has a proven track record of founding and consulting for retail-focused digital products and stepping into senior engineering roles at fast-moving organisations.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Architectural Studies, Architecture, Bachelor's of Architectural Studies, Architecture at University of the WitwatersrandUniversity of Johannesburg 
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Github Skills (138)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Ares-Defence-Labs/KmpEssentials
May 2024 - Feb 2025
KmpEssentials is a library that contains apis (40+ Modules) to accelerate your development. Everything from managing the Battery, File System, getting Package information, or taking Photos. Supports iOS, Android, AppleWatch & JVM
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 164 pushes in 9 months
TheArchitect123/BattleShips
Aug 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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