Dan Sloan
Owner at Lucid Horizons
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDan Sloan is a consulting software developer and owner with over a decade of hands-on experience building web and infrastructure solutions, currently focused on Python, Django and TypeScript/JavaScript. He blends deep engineering practice with product leadership—having held roles from solutions engineering and systems administration to product management for NFV platforms—so he ships pragmatic, well-tested software guided by TDD and Agile. Dan’s career spans education, enterprise and telecom, giving him broad domain knowledge in systems security, networking and virtualized platforms, including participation in ETSI NFV-related work. An active open-source consumer and contributor, he draws on projects like Django, Gatsby and Ghost to inform modern static and dynamic publishing stacks. Known for bringing empathy and mindfulness into team workflows, he pairs technical craftsmanship with user-focused product thinking.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Associate’s Degree at Victoria UniversityHigh School, High School at St Michael's Grammar School
Swedish, Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (126)
web-application10
specification10
django10
mypy10
django-rest10
ghost10
pep10
nodejs10
javascript9
cms9
python9
rest-framework9
dockerfile9
docker-container9
quart9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LucidDan/django-cadence
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
LucidDan/async-asgi-testclient
Nov 2021 - Jun 2023
A framework-agnostic library for testing ASGI web applications
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
asgiweb-applicationsagnostictestingframework-agnostic
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