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Dan Billson

Design Engineer

Londondbillson@outlook.comgithub.com/danbillson

Summary

Design engineer with eight years building product close to design. I care about the details most people won’t notice but everyone feels: type set properly, interactions that feel fast and intentional, systems that hold up. I’m comfortable taking work from discovery to launch, writing the RFC, and building the prototype that settles the argument.

Experience

  1. 2025 – PresentLondon

    AttioDesign Engineer · Product Engineer

    • Joined the workflows team as a product engineer, building the node-based workflow editor
    • Moved to the creative studio as a design engineer, building the interactive parts of attio.com
    • Prototype in the browser with design, then ship the real thing: motion, type and the details in between
  2. 2024 – 2025London

    PaddleSoftware Engineer

    • Led cross-functional projects from discovery to launch: the developer docs homepage refresh, the Paddle MCP server, and the next-forge Paddle Billing template and migration guide
    • Pushed design fidelity and interaction polish across developer-facing surfaces, with Framer Motion and Tailwind
    • Contributed to the open-source SDKs, Paddle.js, and the internal design system
    • Spoke on developer tooling and DX at Paddle Forward and community meetups

    TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind, Motion

  3. 2021 – 2024

    SoPostSenior Software Engineer · Software Engineer

    • Built the core product: sampling campaign management, dynamic landing pages and emails, and the builder used to configure them
    • Led the rebuild of the data capture platform from Elixir/Phoenix to Next.js, RFC to production
    • Built the component library and design system with the design team, documented in Storybook
    • Started the Front-end Guild and ran the SoCode Summer School, mentoring junior engineers

    TypeScript, React, Next.js, Elixir, Storybook

  4. 2020 – 2021

    Climb CreativeFront-end Developer

    • Led the WTTB product page and checkout rebuild
    • Built the Canva integration for custom product design
  5. 2019 – 2020

    MarmaladeFront-end Developer

    • Built the Driver Hub blog on Gatsby and headless Drupal
    • Puppeteer scripts running 100+ concurrent quote checks across aggregators

    React, Gatsby, Drupal, Puppeteer

  6. 2018

    THGGraduate Front-end Developer

    • Site builds for Neutrogena and Gillette, and the MyProtein rebrand

Projects

pothooksCreate and download your own hand-drawn fonts.
ui.dnbls.comFoundations, patterns and components used across projects.
ink.dnbls.comInk-like shaders giving a drawn effect to a 3D model.
next-forge-paddlenext-forge with Paddle Billing, plus a migration guide.
pouring.atFind craft beer by location, brewery or style.

Skills

Front-end
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, CSS
Motion & design
Motion (Framer Motion), CSS and WAAPI animation, design systems, prototyping, typography, Figma
Back-end
Node.js, Elixir, PostgreSQL, tRPC, GraphQL
Tooling
Storybook, Turborepo, GitHub Actions, MDX

Education

2015 – 2018
BSc Computer Science, 2:1Edge Hill University

Interests

Print, beer, volleyball, running, travel.