Dan Shedd
Company Owner at MusicIDB.com (Formerly ArtistBomb.com)
Maine, United States
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Top SchoolDan Shedd is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building web and game projects, currently running Unicorner Games and freelancing on custom WordPress/WooCommerce solutions. He combines a backend focus—PHP, Laravel, Go, MySQL—with modern front-end stacks (Vue, React) and hands-on ops experience managing AWS and server hosting. As a co-founder and former CTO, he’s comfortable leading small teams, scoping complex integrations, and delivering product-focused engineering for startups in e-commerce and healthcare. Beyond web work he designs and ships indie games using Unity and Godot, often handling design, pixel art, audio, and engine scripting himself. He prefers tight-knit teams and consulting roles where he can pair deep technical ownership with product influence. Outside of work he’s a retro-tech hobbyist who performs magic and builds games, underscoring a blend of creativity and technical craft.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Middlesex Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
panic10
pulp9
love2d9
lua8
capi8
pdf-generation7
html-to-pdf7
game-development6
php6
css6
spring6
aws-sdk6
java6
ajax6
wordpress-themes6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Sheep42/clean-theme
May 2019 - Nov 2021
A stripped down starter WordPress theme designed for professional web developers.
Contributions:84 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 6 months
wordpress-themes
Sheep42/prismatic-engine
Mar 2024 - Mar 2026
A game engine for the Playdate C API
Contributions:3 releases, 5 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 11 months
capigame-engine
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