Dan Thorpe
Staff Software Engineer at London Internet Exchange (LINX) Ltd
Tonbridge and Malling, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Thorpe is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a coding journey that began in 2002, evolving from building a popular gaming community to architecting secure, scalable systems for the London Internet Exchange. He brings deep hands-on expertise across PHP, Python, Golang and SQL/NoSQL databases, with strong skills in RESTful API design, network automation, containerised cloud deployments and performance optimisation. At LINX he blends technical leadership, mentoring and ISO27001-aligned security practices with practical delivery as a Scrum Master, while researching AI/LLM applications to improve networking resilience. A pragmatic problem-solver, Dan has a track record of reducing costs through caching and query tuning and an entrepreneurial streak demonstrated by growing MostPlays to over 110k members. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and continues to explore new tech—recently studying Go concurrency and experimenting with Solidity smart contracts.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science at University of YorkBachelor of Science (BSc) Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing at Canterbury Christ Church UniversityGCSE's and A Levels, GCSE's and A Levels at BENNETT MEMORIAL DIOCESAN SCHOOL
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Github Skills (134)
api-platform10
moodle10
php-fpm10
automatic-license-plate-recognition10
docker-container10
javascript10
jquery10
wordpress10
docker-compose10
ajax10
php-container10
laradock10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dant89/symfony-4-basic-user-system
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
A Symfony 4 user registration, authentication and login system using entities
Contributions:21 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 9 months
authenticationlogin-systemsymfonyuser-registration
dant89/ix-api-php-client
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
This project features a PHP client for the IX-API
Contributions:6 releases, 30 commits, 19 PRs in 5 months
phpix-apiix-api-clientix-api-php-clientixapi
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