Hello , I'm Dan. A software engineer and teacher based in the UK.

About this site

This (probably over-engineered) website is designed as a place for me to keep track of my work, ideas and learning, but also to act as a bit of a playground to mess around with design ideas or front-end tech. I expect it to change often and I will try to keep the content as up to date as possible.

Information on what tech was used to build it can be found in the Frontend section of Work.

Dan Krishnan

I'm a self-taught software engineer, a qualified teacher and a bit of a maths and science geek. Sometimes I'll pick up a paintbrush and think I'm an artist, sometimes I'll pick up a skateboard and forget my knees are 37 years old, and sometimes I'll have a problem with doing too many things at once. I enjoy anything that allows me to think deeply, learn and get better. I'm currently a software engineer for a large ecommerce company.

I live in Chester with my wife and have a dog called Xander (a long-haired Weimaraner because I'm sure you were wondering). I spend most of my time either learning new things, solving technical problems, building software, travelling or being walked by my dog 🐶

Technology

I currently spend most of my time writing TypeScript. The frontend work I currently do is almost always written with React.js and most server/API work I do is written in the Node.js ecosystem. When developing cloud systems specifically, I am most familiar with AWS services.

That being said, I am consistently trying to learn different technologies, and in the past have touched on languages such as Go, Java, Python & Swift. My day to day however is most definitely TS at the moment.

For a more comprehensive list of tech I've worked with click here.

Education

I have spent a lot of my professional life in and around education, having worked at both university and high school level. My last teaching post (2017) was a Teacher of Physics (and sometimes Maths) at a grammar school in south Manchester (Years 7 - 13 UK == Grades 6 - 12 US).

Before working as a full-time software engineer I taught at a coding bootcamp where I eventually led on curriculum design for the software courses offered.

Other random stuff

In the (near) future I hope to have a page dedicated to artwork, but for now here's a watercolour pheasant 🤷‍♂️