My name is Dan Smith, and for more than two decades I have been involved in education and training as well as designing learning experience for teenagers and adults. At the onset of the pandemic, I pivoted my career to software development where I was introduced to UX/UI design and have since married my technical understanding with my education expertise to be a designer predominantly within the tech space. Visit my portfolio for samples of some of my work.

I am an optimistic guy with a child-like nature. I love comic books and particularly Spider-Man comics that I have read since I was a kid. My first web app that I ever created using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript was a trivia app about the Superhero himself.

I love to travel and speak several languages such as Italian, French, and Spanish. I have lived in countries where those languages are spoken and traveled to many more beyond. While in Graduate School to become a teacher I won the original iPhone from a travel blog I wrote back in the summer of 2007 and continued to write more to that blog because I find it fun and therapeutic.

I also ride my bike as a predominant means of transportation, partly to save money on other means of travel, but mostly to reduce my carbon footprint (in Summer 2023, I rode my bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles for AIDS Life Cycle to raise money and awareness for AIDS research and healthcare). I enjoy outdoor adventures but I'm also happy to relax at home playing board games, video games, or cooking and enjoying the company of friends.