I’m Cal1 Bryant. I enjoy writing software, electronic design, home DIY, coffee, HiFi audio, cycling, kayaking and amateur radio;2, FPV drones, sometimes even DJing. I live in Cambridgeshire with my wife, 2 daughters and our cat.

I currently work at Cydar (a medical analytics company) as Head of Engineering, having worked at Broadcom. I studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering (MEng) at the University of Leicester.3 More.

I created dstask, a git-powered terminal to-do manager; and dsnet, a wireguard tool; among other things.

You can check out my CV as HTML or PDF. 4 See also my Github, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles.

Email me or DM me to get in touch about anything on this website,5 but please don’t send me templated recruitment messages.

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  1. Short for “Callan” ↩︎

  2. Callsign: M7NBD on foundation license. Though, I’ve practically deleted this hobby. ↩︎

  3. Awarded 1st Class Hons. ↩︎

  4. Generated from a YAML template using Hugo and LaTeX with Jinja2. Optimised for file size with ghostscript, cleaned with exiftool and qpdf↩︎

  5. Made from scratch with hugo with a focus on typography, quality UX and SEO. Optimised to load lightning fast using a bs4 + tinycss2 based script to inline CSS/JS, tree-shake CSS and substitute class names, a selenium script to annotate images below the fold for lazy-loading, html-minifier (which uses clean-css and UglifyJS), optipng, jpegoptim, svgo for originals, with webp images, no frameworks, caching and a global CDN behind nginx with a best-practice config. Written with neovim, validated with VNU validator, spellchecked with typos, linted with eslint, stylelint and proselint. Built as a nix derivation. ↩︎