Dan Q
Senior Software Engineer at Firstup
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDan Q is a senior full-stack engineer and founder with 16 years’ experience building practical, accessible web systems across PHP, Ruby/Rails, WordPress/WooCommerce and DevOps. He combines hands-on front-end work—contributing accessibility and UX improvements to high-profile projects like WooCommerce—with security-minded, multi-paradigm engineering and progressive enhancement. As Technical Director of Three Rings CIC he leads a distributed volunteer team delivering enterprise-grade software for charities, now powering hundreds of thousands of volunteering journeys. Formerly at Automattic and the University of Oxford and now at Firstup, he’s a force-multiplier who pairs pragmatic code with thoughtful team leadership. Notably, he brings rare experience running mission-driven product development at scale while keeping a technology-agnostic, accessibility-first lens.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
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react10
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typescript9
typescripts9
woocommerce9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
May 2020 - Feb 2021
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 3 commits, 26 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the WooCommerce marketplace, focusing on user interface improvements and component enhancements. Their contributions included making product cards entirely clickable with hover effects and updating footer text and search placeholder text. The user also addressed accessibility and semantic issues, such as improving the semantics of "no results" pages and adding width/height attributes to images. Furthermore, they suppressed the category selector on certain search pages and addressed some styling issues.
ecommercewordpresswoocommercephpautomattic
Dan-Q/twee2
Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
A Twine 2 compiler that runs from the command-line, like Twee.
Contributions:64 commits, 9 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 8 months
command-linecompiler
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