Dan Govan
Senior Front End / Full Stack developer and Software Engineer, passionate about UI/UX and emerging tech, looking to join a curious, collaborative and forward-looking team.
Summary
With 20 years of hands-on web experience, I bring deep expertise in React & the modern front-end ecosystem, paired with a strong design sensibility & eye for detail. I thrive in cross-functional teams, love solving user-centric problems, & get fired up by clean code, great UX, & collaborative culture. Whether it’s shipping scalable UI libraries, leading design system rollouts, or levelling up legacy platforms, I bring curiosity & pragmatism to every project. I’m looking to join a forward-thinking team where I can keep learning, building, & making a meaningful impact.
Skills
JS Frameworks
Focused on the evolving React ecosystem since 2018, lately in Next.js, but with recent experience with Astro & previously Gatsby & React Native. Always keen to see what’s next.
Styling
Lately Tailwind, previously frameworks like Chakra-UI, before that CSSinJS (styled-components, styled-system, JSS, TSS, CSS modules), preprocessors (Sass, LESS, Stylus).
Semantics
Early projects with international brands like Vauxhall & Colgate ensured a strong background in semantic HTML for accessibility, SEO, & responsive & device-agnostic design; essential for scalability & localisation.
JavaScript
Mainly TypeScript for SPAs & SSR apps in Next.js (v12–14). Experience includes REST APIs, Redux, Context, React Query, & GraphQL. Some backend in Node & PHP, keen to expand to full-stack roles.
Testing
E2E with Playwright & Cypress. Unit testing with Jest, React Testing Library. AB testing with Optimizely, visual regression with Chromatic.
Design systems
Love collaborating with designers whether that be on rapid prototyping, greenfield component libraries, or maintaining living style guides. Also comfortable extracting assets from comps (Photoshop to Figma), identifying UX gaps, & prototyping in Storybook.
Knowledge sharing
Value collaboration through pairing, code reviews, & mentorship opportunities in cross-functional teams.
Tooling
VS Code, Docker, Webpack, Yarn/PNPM, Git. CI/CD with Travis, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions. Project management in Jira, Trello, Fibery.
Experience
Software Engineer
Altium
In-house product team in a multinational company
Cambridge, Remote
Sept 2023 - Dec 2024
1y 4mon contract, renewed twice
Joining Altium's Octopart in-house web team to overhaul a legacy codebase on a site with 2.3M monthly users.
Led migration from Styled JSX to Tailwind, implemented a new design system using Storybook & Chromatic for documentation, UX alignment & visual regression testing.
Delivered new UX filters that increased usage 4%, SEO-focused landing page templates used thousands of times to index to for google, & E2E tests with Playwright. Contributed to tech upgrades: pnpm, Node 20, Next.js 14 (App Router), GraphQL rewrites, redux refactors.
Active in agile rituals: sprint planning, code reviews, retrospectives.
Senior Frontend Developer
EDD London
Agency
Hackney London, Hybrid
Jul 2022 - Apr 2023
Contract
Built booking platforms & a CMS agency showcase using TypeScript, React, Storybook, & dynamic SSR with Next.js.
Lead developers on building & integrating React components.
Created a custom UI library extending Chakra UI, using their theming framework to provide white-label support.
Used React Hook Forms, framer-motion, MSW, React Query, custom Headless CMS integrations.
UI/UX Designer & Developer
Lightbydan
In-house
London, Remote
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contract
Built a photography showcase in TypeScript with Gatsby/GraphQL & Chakra-UI, deployed via Netlify. Forms with Formik & Firebase.
React Developer
Festicket
In-house
London, Remote
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
Contract
Joined a product team to build internal portals & partner-facing features in a large React/Redux codebase of a ticket marketplace platform.
Worked with TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, Jest, React-i18next, PHP templates (Twig, PHPTal), Jenkins pipelines.
Full Stack Developer
BDH
Agency
Bristol, Remote
Feb 2021
Contract
Made improvements to the MVP of a Networked Interactive Presentation app after a round of user testing, with React / Redux & express / socket.io.
React Developer
Jollywise
Agency
Brighton, Remote
Sept 2020 - Mar 2021
Contract
Led frontend React & Redux-heavy revamp for Cartoon Network’s “Elliot from Earth,” with a new design, api & components, contributing to other interactive projects, SPAs & mini-games.
Senior Frontend Developer
EDD London
Agency
Hackney London, On-site
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Contract
Built React UI components for a camera rental eCommerce site & then led on overhauling the layout from desktop-specific to device-agnostic to support mobile/tablet with animated transitions.
Senior Frontend Developer
Rehab Agency
Agency
Spitalfields London, On-site
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Contract
Built a SCORM-based anti-phishing educational tool using React, CSS modules and JSON. 8 localisations of 6 lessons meant of JSON. Ended up leading the field and advising parallel projects to bring them up to speed.
Frontend Developer
YunoJuno
In-house
Bermondsey London, Hybrid
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contract
Returned to this in-house product team to use React with modular SCSS to implement a new registration & onboarding system to their freelancer platform.
UI Developer
22 design
Agency
London, On-site
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contract
Boutique agency role where projects included an HTML5 banner for the front page of Talk Talk, updates to an OpenCart eCommerce site, and other HTML5 and JS interactive elements.
Frontend Developer
KoffeeCup
Agency
London, On-site
May 2018 - Sept 2018
Contract
Overhauled & updated an Angular/Cordova tablet app for on-site tablet & kiosk deployment at a client event.
Frontend Developer & CSS Architect
YunoJuno
In-house
Bermondsey London, Hybrid
Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
Contract
Built out an evolving UX & Frontend, tamed legacy startup CSS, & maintained an extensive design system using practical BEM, Stylus/SASS & Django templating, later moving to React.
Carried out a platform-wide redesign with a single CSS retheme for a seamless & non-destructive transition.
Creative Technologist
MetaBroadcast
In-house
London, On-site
Jul 2014 - Jun 2015
Part-time
Joined a backend engineering team to build experimental UIs to consume and test TV metadata APIs for the BBC. Also contributed to the company blog and spoke at monthly meetups.
Frontend Developer
VooDooBytes
Agency
London, On-site
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
Contract
Developed sites & eCommerce for clients like agreatplacetobe, Cameraworks, Heineken, Rex & Mariano, DMB represents & Blossom Hill. Used Mixture, Sass, Liquid, & jQuery for integration to Umbraco.
Senior Interface Developer
Maynard Malone
Agency
London, On-site
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contract
An agency role on a content-based site for Organix site, where I was quickly able to pick up Drupal and used PHP, CSS & jQuery to implement new sections of the site.
Senior Interactive Web Developer
VML London
Agency
Camden London, On-site
Nov 2012 - Feb 2014
Full-time
Responsive CSS/UX Lead on builds from microsites to enterprise-level CQ builds, for Colgate, Premier Inn & Premier League.
Frontend lead on a 6-month fluid mobile build (500k daily users, £3M weekly revenue).
Organised knowledge-sharing workshops, was tech voice on the social media committee, & in-house portraits & events photographer.
Interface Developer
MRM Meteorite
Agency
Southwark London, On-site
Oct 2011 - Nov 2012
Full-time
Built microsites for Vauxhall & Nationwide, an Intel facebook campaign, & iPad/PhoneGap apps for Regus & The Mall. Championed responsive & parallax design.
Front-End Developer
MRM London
Agency
Southwark London, On-site
Apr 2006 - Oct 2011
Full-time
Starting as an Associate before promotion, I worked in HTML, CSS & jQ to reconcile the work of copywriters, designers & backend, to build & localise sites & HTML emails for clients like Intel, Vauxhall, Sky Movies, MSN & MasterCard.
Led initiatives in bridging the tech & creative teams. Presented on company values & best practice.
Info
Education:
2004 Warwick University, BEng in Mechanical EngineeringLocation:
Poplar, LondonWebsite:
dangovan.comEmail:
dangovan@proton.meLinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/dangovanGithub:
github.com/danielgovan