Dan Garland

Hi, I'm Dan

Full‑stack engineer & AI product builder with over 20 years experience delivering MVPs from concept to launch.

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Recent Projects

Gig Totem Homepage

Gig Totem

🔗www.gigtotem.com

A gig listing platform that uses OpenAI Vision to extract structured data—artist, venue, location, date— from uploaded gig posters. Searchable via Lucene on MongoDB Atlas, and SEO-optimised for Google to help fans discover local live music effortlessly.

💡 Built to merge my passion for grassroots live music with cutting-edge AI.

Stack: OpenAI Vision, MongoDB Atlas, BullMQ, SvelteKit, Node.js, Terraform, AWS

Most Rated Homepage

Most Rated

🔗www.mostrated.com

A community-powered streaming platform where listeners rate tracks and influence what gets played next. Most Rated helps emerging artists gain exposure, while allowing listeners to share their subscription fees directly with the artists they love.

💡 Born out of frustration with algorithmic music platforms and unfair artist compensation.

Stack: Node.js, Mongo, SvelteKit, Terraform, AWS

Articles

An example site generated via Nextcloud

Using Nextcloud with Gatsby WebDAV

I have for some time been using Nextcloud as my own personal file storage, calendar, to-do list and go-to cloud platform for everything…

Leonardo Di Caprio plays The Great Gatsby

InuitCSS and Gatsby - My First Plugin

Ever since my first dealings with JavaScript, programming the status bar of Netscape Navigator and bringing up annoying alert boxes, I've…

Alison Jones and Peter Baikie performing live

Keeeep Smiling!

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was humbled when I thought of my sister, a NHS doctor, putting herself in harm’s way, being a real…

A fight scene from Final Fantasy III for the SNES

Come out of your shell and learn Bash

One thing I noticed whenever I'd kick off a new cohort at We Got Coders, was that despite all my efforts, often students would arrive…

Luke Skywalker

Learn To Code the Jedi Way

TLDR: If you’re going to be a Jedi, you need to know how to construct your own lightsaber. If you’re going to learn to code, you’ll need to…

Dan speaking at London Ruby Unconference 2017

Ruby Unconference 2018 Protobufs, gRPC and Ruby

One of my favourite Ruby meetups is the London Ruby Unconference, which took place last Saturday, just round the corner from Buckingham…