Dan Kersten
Full Stack Engineer at Self-employed
Carlow, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Kersten is a versatile Full Stack Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput systems across industries including telecoms, aerospace, finance, crypto, and analytics. He moves seamlessly between frontend and backend work—Typescript/React and Rust to Python and Clojure—preferring raw SQL for performance-sensitive systems and recently adopting Drizzle for schema migrations. As a founder and consultant he’s led small engineering teams, built trading automation used by real traders, and shipped embedded and sync systems for in-flight entertainment at scale. Lately he’s been exploring AI-driven developer tooling, creating agentic coding systems and LLM-powered apps using Vercel AI SDK and Rust workflow engines with strict TDD and spec-driven practices. Based in Carlow, Ireland, he blends pragmatic engineering, deep systems thinking, and a knack for turning research plans into production automation.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Applications (Software Engineering), Computer Science, Computer Applications (Software Engineering), Computer Science at Dublin City University
English, German
Github Skills (200)
architectural-patterns10
multithreading10
data-oriented-design10
cpp10
tableau10
rendering10
react-component10
reflection10
entity-component-system10
entt10
game-programming10
game-dev10
grid10
react10
javascript9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Erinite/core
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
danielytics/sophia-engine
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
2.5D fixed-camera-3D Game Engine
Contributions:54 commits, 14 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 5 months
game-engine
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