Daniel Clifton
Chief Executive Officer at Music WishList
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Clifton is a technology-focused CEO and founder with over a decade leading streaming and web-hosting services, most recently founding Music WishList after long stewardship at Stream GB Media. He combines hands-on full-stack skills (HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, SQL) and server ops with deep streaming expertise—Wowza, SHOUTcast, Icecast and simulated live/on-demand workflows—for radio, events and mobile delivery. Daniel pairs customer-facing leadership (sales, marketing, support) with technical responsibilities like load balancing, DNS, cPanel/WHM and cloud server management, ensuring 24/7 resilient media services. He has contributed front-end improvements to high-profile projects such as The Guardian’s frontend, applying UI and performance tweaks in JavaScript and Scala. Based in the UK, he brings a pragmatic entrepreneur’s perspective: shipping reliable media platforms while enabling publishers to go live without dropping audiences. His background shows an uncommon mix of operational reliability, product-focused engineering and live-media innovation.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
George Abbot Guildford
English
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
front-end-development10
scala9
css8
html8
react5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 24 commits, 20 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, making changes to JavaScript files and Scala files related to the user interface. Their work included adding and modifying JavaScript packages, incorporating new features like a dialog polyfill for lightboxes, and updating code related to image handling and layout. The user also made adjustments to the styling and theming of components.
productionguardian
guardian/fastly-api-client
Jan 2026 - May 2026
An asynchronous Scala client for Fastly's API used to deploy and update configs, decache objects and query the stats API
Contributions:4 reviews, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
asynchronousfastlyscalaproduction
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