DanielGorgonia.

Director of Technology and Product

• →Own product direction and platform architecture for a 14-system estate serving 60–80 international student-recruitment fairs a year in 40 cities across 18 countries.
• →Led the organisation's adoption of AI-assisted engineering, redesigning the delivery process and retraining the team.
• →Drove adoption of a layered GitHub Copilot governance framework, an MCP server and release-automation agents, condensing delivery timelines from months to weeks.
• →Decided and directed a three-year move of BMI Global Ed's systems onto one shared Node.js API platform of 200+ endpoints across seven modules, with the legacy PHP API retired.
• →Contributed the technology case to a winning government bid.
• →Achieved a 50% reduction in AWS infrastructure cost, and took production incident resolution from days to hours by introducing full-stack observability.

Founder & AI Product Lead

• →A London flower business selling through pop-ups, events and bouquet-making workshops, and the AI inventory, pricing and forecasting platform it runs on, built with Claude Code and operated end to end as sole engineer.
• →Architected the conversational AI assistant around a deterministic-arithmetic / probabilistic-creativity boundary, gating its release on a scored LLM-as-judge baseline.
• →Built a four-step structured-output failure ladder that recovered every malformed model response in the verification run (0 requests failed, against 32% before).
• →Built a statistical forecasting pipeline that runs within a zero-cost AWS free-tier budget.

Head of Engineering and Product

• →Grew the technology function from a single developer to a governed engineering team, reducing annual engineering costs by 70%.
• →Facilitated the acquisition by Times Higher Education by leading the technical due-diligence documentation.
• →Proposed selling universities sponsored articles instead of banner space, a tiered paid-placement model with contractual delivery guarantees that grew the content platform's annual revenue by 300% in its first year.
• →Doubled total fairs revenue between 2020 and 2021 by pivoting physical conferences to digital across six global regions.
• →Made the buy vs build call for the fair-site estate, so event teams publish their own changes in minutes instead of days.
• →Cut marketing operational overhead by 80% by building automation into the fairs platform.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

• →Proposed and built the company's cross-platform iOS/Android lead-capture app to replace exhibitors' paper forms and spreadsheets, from an empty repository to first App Store submission in 60 days.
• →Built it offline-first, so capture kept working with no connectivity at live international fairs.
• →Refined it from seven weeks of customer research in LATAM and Dubai, adding a Fast Scan mode for high-volume stands; used at every fair from then on.
• →Co-built the visitor check-in and badge-printing system, giving the business its first record of who attended and when.

Full-Stack Engineer

• →Authored the core architecture of the multi-country PHP fairs platform that served the physical-fairs product line for a decade across 36 domains and 8 locales.
• →Increased event sign-ups by 67% through A/B testing, including redesigning fair registration from one long page into a step-by-step mobile form.
• →Co-built the fairs-reporting platform, cutting report turnaround from days to minutes.
• →Migrated the organisation's systems to AWS and introduced Agile methodologies company-wide.

Early career