Dan Macnish
Producer at Creature Technology Co.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Macnish is a creative technologist and producer with a decade of experience building award-winning interactive art, advertising, and product work that blends mechatronics, software, and UX design. He moves fluidly between hardware hacks (from fitbits tracking chickens to plant-based displays and knitted fabric sensors) and full-stack software, demonstrated by contributions like a Python-based Cartoonify app with GUI, camera, headless, and batch-processing features. His background in mechatronics and roles at AIRBAG, Planet Innovation, and Creature Technology Co. enable him to act as the "technical glue" on multidisciplinary teams, solving the practical question of "how can this be done?" He enjoys tackling complex briefs that require diverse skills and collaboration with creatives, scientists, and children alike, producing work recognized by D&AD, Good Design Awards, Australian Design Awards, and Spikes Asia Pacific. Based in Melbourne, he balances rigorous engineering thinking with playful, human-centred outcomes—often producing solutions that are as surprising as they are technically robust.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mechatronic Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Curtin University
Github Skills (8)
front-end-development10
python10
image-processing9
raspberry-pi8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
camera7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
danmacnish/cartoonify
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
python app to turn a photograph into a cartoon
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:236 commits, 2 PRs, 183 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the `cartoonify` project by refactoring the import statements, likely to organize the codebase. They also made changes to the GUI, by creating functions, adding and connecting various graphical elements and also incorporating the camera functionality. Finally, they implemented features such as headless mode and batch processing of images.
python-app
danmacnish/livedata
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:74 commits, 48 pushes, 10 branches in 27 days
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