Dan began his journey in code in the late 80s, learning to write text adverntures and random swear word generators on his family's Amstrad CPC464. Since 2008 he's been working predominantly as a front-end engineer with a huge love for hacking CSS and the DOM.

Dan now works at Unit4 as Design System Manager, tackling the challenge of systemising design at an enterprise level.

Dan is a Design Advocate for zeroheight, a design system documentation product, drawing on his experience at Auto Trader in the UK, looking after the design system and helping to improve the consumer experience there. He’s previously worked at McCann and the BBC, at web agencies, and as a freelancer. From making his first site in ‘97 to now, he’s always passionate about using the web to make things better for people and often awkwardly straddles the worlds of development and design to try and help solve problems. He publishes articles, talks at many events, and is a co-organizer of UpFront Conf. Outside of work, there’s noise to be made as These Dead Machines/Mark of 1000 Evils.