Summary
Dan Hon is a principal product and strategy leader with 12+ years crafting user-centered digital services for governments and global brands, blending creative agency experience (Nike, Facebook, Sony) with public-sector transformation. He advises and consults through his firm Very Little Gravitas, helping organizations align product vision, enterprise transformation and organizational design while coaching leaders and remote teams. A co-founder of an award-winning games studio and former agency creative director, he brings an uncommon mix of storytelling, design-led thinking and legal/technical training (MSc Software Engineering, MA Law). He’s deeply involved in civic tech—co-chairing the Code for America Summit for several years and advising HHS and state agencies on child-welfare system redesign—while also running a 3,000+ subscriber newsletter that examines technology’s human impacts. Based in Portland, he pairs industry-recognized creative work (Wired, SXSW, Cannes, BAFTA) with pragmatic delivery skills that help complex public programs actually ship.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at University of Liverpool
MA Law, MA Law at University of Cambridge
LPC Law, LPC Law at The College of Law, Chester
PSC PSC legal, PSC PSC legal at Altior