Dan Hon
Principal at Shining Star Waldorf School
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDan Hon is a principal product and strategy leader with 12+ years crafting user-centered digital services for governments and global brands, blending creative agency experience (Nike, Facebook, Sony) with public-sector transformation. He advises and consults through his firm Very Little Gravitas, helping organizations align product vision, enterprise transformation and organizational design while coaching leaders and remote teams. A co-founder of an award-winning games studio and former agency creative director, he brings an uncommon mix of storytelling, design-led thinking and legal/technical training (MSc Software Engineering, MA Law). He’s deeply involved in civic tech—co-chairing the Code for America Summit for several years and advising HHS and state agencies on child-welfare system redesign—while also running a 3,000+ subscriber newsletter that examines technology’s human impacts. Based in Portland, he pairs industry-recognized creative work (Wired, SXSW, Cannes, BAFTA) with pragmatic delivery skills that help complex public programs actually ship.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at University of LiverpoolMA Law, MA Law at University of CambridgeLPC Law, LPC Law at The College of Law, ChesterPSC PSC legal, PSC PSC legal at Altior
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Github Skills (31)
hugo10
jekyll10
mastodon-app7
mastodon-api7
location6
requirements-management6
api5
risk-analysis5
api-rest4
api-client4
wordpress4
audio4
python4
mastodon3
php3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danhon/danhon.github.io
Jun 2019 - Aug 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
VeryLittleGravitas/VeryLittleGravitas.github.io
Mar 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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