Daren Chandisingh
Head Of Web at Lancaster University
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaren Chandisingh is a seasoned web engineering leader with three decades of software development experience and over a decade leading web teams in higher education and media. As Head of Web at Lancaster University he led a large web transformation to centralize disparate sites onto a consistent, mobile-first CMS and has a track record of improving developer tooling and deployment practices. His background spans DOS and Windows-era forecasting and GUI systems through C++ and Python to modern LAMP stacks, RESTful APIs and AWS operations, giving him exceptional flexibility in choosing the right tool for the task. He has driven adoption of best practices—Git, automated testing, code review—and mentored teams to raise operational maturity. Comfortable shipping high-traffic public sites (BBC children’s platforms) and enterprise web services, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership. An oft-overlooked strength is his long-term continuity across platform shifts, which helps bridge legacy systems and modern web architecture.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Lancaster Royal Grammar SchoolMaths & Physics, Maths & Physics at University of Worcester
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Github Skills (47)
architecture10
browser10
pygments10
syntax-highlighting10
server10
mysql9
python9
php9
highlighter9
syntax-highlighter8
strava-api8
hybrid8
static-site-generator8
gitpod7
vscode-plugin7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lancasteruniversity/web-developer-task
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
darenc/pygments
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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