Dan Reid
Founder at Grantmaker
Salisbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Reid is a founder and machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience building AI-driven products that reduce operational friction for industry and charity sectors. He co-founded Senseye, a predictive maintenance SaaS adopted by Fortune 500 firms and later acquired by Siemens, and led its engineering and product teams through that scale-up and integration. More recently he founded Grantmaker to apply AI to discover and assess high-impact charities, while also creating Impactasaurus, a free impact-measurement platform used by over 100 organisations. Technically hands-on across full-stack and ML work, he contributes open-source tooling such as the Chakram REST API testing framework, demonstrating attention to testability and developer ergonomics. With an MEng in AI and Cybernetics and a PhD in Biometrics, he blends deep academic grounding with practical product delivery and a focus on amplifying under-resourced social organisations.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, AI and Cybernetics, 1st, MEng, AI and Cybernetics, 1st at The University of ReadingPhD, Biometrics, PhD, Biometrics at University of Southampton
Github Skills (7)
mochajs10
javascript10
rest10
chai10
api-testing10
bdd9
json-schema8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dareid/chakram
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
REST API test framework. BDD and exploits promises
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 165 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan focused on developing and enhancing the REST API test framework. Their contributions involved implementing new features, such as custom matchers for HTTP headers and cookies, and improving existing ones like schema validation and response time measurement. The user also refactored the test suite to improve usability and maintainability. They added example code to demonstrate the framework's capabilities.
cucumbertesting-toolstest-automationrest-api-test-frameworkjavascript
senseyeio/roger
Aug 2015 - Oct 2019
Golang RServe client. Use R from Go
Contributions:5 releases, 70 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 2 months
golangrserve
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