Dan’s a developer, author and speaker, as well as the CTO of the innovative FinTech startup, Zeti. He has a rare type of brain tumour called an Acoustic Neuroma, which has caused him to lose his hearing in one ear - you can find out more about this and support an excellent charity that has supported him here.

Dan started his adult life studying Physics at UCL. Whilst there he read his first ‘Java for Dummies’ book, did an intro to Java module and discovered a love of programming. He got an internship at M&G plc doing software engineering, learning how to use Java in a ‘proper’ work environment.

In the final year of his degree he discovered the world of Quantum Computing, something that’s interested him ever since. He graduated with a 1st class honours in an integrated Masters in Physics, and joined M&G on their graduate progrogramme. When he started he immediately had to learn C# and Node.js, as his new team didn’t use Java at all. The team he joined were adopting Azure for the first time, and he was introduced to Azure Functions. He worked heavily with them, and was then approached on LinkedIn to write his first book, ‘Beginning Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure’.

Before long he had started on his second book, ‘Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure’ and began an exciting lone secondment in M&G’s Alternative Credit division. He delivered some significant changes for Alternative Credit team, and recruited two excellent graduates onto his team. He learnt a great deal about Databricks, Python, Slack Apps, React and Typescript. He was first diagnosed with his brain tumour during the time of the first lockdown.

He then left M&G to join Zeti as their CTO, working on helping with the all-important transition to zero emission vehicles. He’s a vegetarian for environmental reasons, owns an electric car himself and is careful in his work as a developer to minimize his energy use, so the mission of Zeti fits very well.