Dan Wilson
Contractor at Midjourney
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Wilson is a staff software engineer and proven CTO with 15 years of experience scaling engineering teams and delivering resilient, production-grade systems. He has built engineering organisations from scratch—recently growing a team to 12 developers—while serving on executive teams and managing significant software budgets. Dan specialises in rapid infrastructure transformation (single server to enterprise AWS with 99.99% uptime), modern data stacks (Snowflake/DBT/Fivetran) and enterprise security including ISO 27001 preparation. He pairs hands-on full-stack work—contributing frontend improvements and test-suite fixes to open-source data portal projects—with strategic leadership in AI adoption and recruitment AI thought leadership. His background in computational chemistry (PhD, UCL) underpins a data-driven approach to product and architecture decisions. Based in Edinburgh, he is available for CTO/Head of Engineering roles and consulting with startups and scaleups aiming to scale technology and teams efficiently.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MChemPhys Chemistry Physics, MChemPhys Chemistry Physics at The University of EdinburghUniversity College London
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
nextjs10
react10
backbonejs9
portal9
backbone9
qunit8
testing8
css7
html7
open-datasets6
open-data6
ckan6
transparency6
firefox6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
datopian/portaljs
Apr 2013 - May 2013
🌀 Rapidly build feature-rich data portals using a modern frontend framework. CKAN compatible.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on enhancing the frontend features of the data portal. They exposed initialization options for the Timeline JS component, enabled strict mode and fixed related issues, and updated code to prevent clobbering of the view. The user also addressed several bugs and improved the test suite. These contributions demonstrate a strong emphasis on improving the application's usability and reliability.
next-generationdata-presentationdata-portal-frontendsdataportals
djw/django-paypal
Oct 2020 - Jun 2024
A pluggable Django application for integrating PayPal Payments Standard or Payments Pro
Contributions:12 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 8 months
paymentsdjangopaypalpaypal-paymentsdjango-application
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