Daniel Karaj
Engineering at ElevenLabs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Karaj is an engineering-focused software developer with 11 years’ experience building front-end driven web products for organizations from Google to the UK Government and academia. A Cambridge Computer Science graduate with an RCA/Imperial Global Innovation Design MA/MSc, he combines rigorous engineering practice with product and design sensibilities, having led UX-focused web refreshes and accessibility work on Google Calendar. At GDS he modernised legacy publishing workflows for GOV.UK, touching both front- and back-end code to align services with a national design system. He’s now continuing his craft at ElevenLabs, bringing pragmatic full-stack instincts and a background in research-led design from the University of Tokyo. Colleagues value him for bridging design, accessibility and engineering while shipping durable, user-centred interfaces at scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Global Innovation Design, Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Global Innovation Design, Distinction at Imperial College LondonA2 Maths (A*), Further Maths (A), Physics (A), Computing (A) and Art (A), A2 Maths (A*), Further Maths (A), Physics (A), Computing (A) and Art (A) at Sutton Grammar SchoolExchange Semester, Media Design, Exchange Semester, Media Design at Keio UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 2:1 at University of CambridgeMaster of Arts - MA, Global Innovation Design, Distinction, Master of Arts - MA, Global Innovation Design, Distinction at Royal College of Art
English, German
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Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:241 reviews, 121 commits, 278 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on updating the Whitehall publishing platform's front-end components to align with the new design system. They made significant contributions by renaming and updating various legacy view files, incorporating design system layouts for pages like the confirm destroy, legacy URL edit, unpublishing edit, and attachment reorder pages. The user also added a new page for deleting translation and, in doing so, touched upon both back-end controller logic and front-end view components.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
alphagov/govspeak-visual-editor
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024
A visual editor for Govspeak built using ProseMirror
Contributions:43 reviews, 111 PRs, 136 pushes in 10 months
govuk
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