Dan Hon
Principal at Things That Have Caught My Attention
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDan 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 LiverpoolMA Law, MA Law at University of CambridgeLPC Law, LPC Law at The College of Law, ChesterPSC PSC legal, PSC PSC legal at Altior
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Github Skills (28)
hugo9
kate9
jekyll9
mastodon-app8
mastodon-api7
tracery6
location6
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requirements-management6
api-client6
api5
wordpress5
risk-analysis5
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VeryLittleGravitas/VeryLittleGravitas.github.io
Mar 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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danhon/danhon.github.io
Jun 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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