{
  "candidate": {
    "name": "Daniel White",
    "role": "Software Engineer",
    "location": "Derby, UK",
    "portfolio": "https://www.danielwhite.uk",
    "email": "daniel.belyi@outlook.com",
    "availability": "Open to software engineering roles",
    "positioning": "Frontend-leaning full-stack software engineer focused on TypeScript, React, Node.js, performance optimisation, product systems, and revenue-critical user journeys.",
    "summary": "Daniel White is a software engineer with 3+ years of experience shipping production systems across frontend and backend. Strong in TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, REST APIs, and maintainable architecture, with a track record of improving performance, conversion, reliability, and operational workflows.",
    "strengths": [
      "Frontend-leaning full-stack product engineering",
      "Performance optimisation",
      "Revenue-critical pricing and quotation flows",
      "Internal tools and operational systems",
      "TypeScript / Node.js / React delivery",
      "Clear, maintainable architecture"
    ],
    "fitRoles": [
      "Software Engineer",
      "Product Engineer",
      "Frontend-leaning Full-stack Engineer",
      "TypeScript Engineer",
      "Internal Tools Engineer",
      "Product Systems Engineer"
    ],
    "hiringSignals": [
      "Can improve real product flows, not just presentation layers",
      "Comfortable shipping across frontend and backend boundaries",
      "Thinks in outcomes, maintainability, and operational reliability",
      "Good fit for teams that need pragmatic execution, product ownership, and measurable delivery"
    ],
    "impact": [
      "Improved page performance by roughly 35% during a major platform rebuild",
      "Helped deliver a quotation flow contributing to roughly 60% sales growth",
      "Built controlled promotional functionality that drove over 2,000 customer sign-ups",
      "Improved reporting reliability and workflow efficiency through admin systems and APIs"
    ],
    "techStack": {
      "Languages": [
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "Java",
        "HTML",
        "CSS"
      ],
      "Frontend": [
        "React",
        "Next.js",
        "UI architecture"
      ],
      "Backend": [
        "Node.js",
        "Express",
        "REST APIs",
        "Authentication",
        "Server-side validation"
      ],
      "Data": [
        "SQL",
        "Relational data modelling"
      ],
      "Tools": [
        "Git",
        "Postman",
        "CI/CD",
        "Jira"
      ],
      "Concepts": [
        "Software architecture",
        "Distributed systems",
        "Performance optimisation",
        "Secure system design"
      ]
    },
    "experience": [
      {
        "title": "Software Engineer",
        "company": "My Kind of Cruise",
        "location": "Derby, UK",
        "dates": "Dec 2024 - Present",
        "highlights": [
          "Led major parts of a production platform rebuild using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node.js.",
          "Built personalised pricing and quotation flows with server-side validation and data checks.",
          "Developed promotional systems, admin tools, and APIs that improved operations and reporting.",
          "Improved maintainability through modular service and component architecture."
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Software Engineer (Contract)",
        "company": "Various UK Clients",
        "location": "Remote",
        "dates": "Jan 2024 - Nov 2024",
        "highlights": [
          "Delivered end-to-end production systems across frontend applications and backend services while also supporting overlapping data-systems work.",
          "Implemented custom checkout flows, payment integrations, and order-processing pipelines.",
          "Built secure authentication, compliant form handling, and automated fulfilment workflows."
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Software Engineer (Data Systems)",
        "company": "Construct Virtual",
        "location": "Remote",
        "dates": "Mar 2024 - Nov 2024",
        "highlights": [
          "Built automated data processing pipelines and reporting services using Node.js and TypeScript.",
          "Designed and consumed REST APIs with schema validation and consistency controls."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "projects": [
      {
        "title": "Platform Rebuild",
        "year": "2025",
        "problem": "Slow production pages caused by oversized API payloads across blog, FAQ, and cruise surfaces.",
        "solution": "Reworked platform data flow and component scope to cut waste and improve rendering speed.",
        "outcome": "Delivered roughly 35% faster page performance."
      },
      {
        "title": "Quotation Flow",
        "year": "2025",
        "problem": "A pricing journey needed stronger validation, cleaner data handling, and a better conversion path.",
        "solution": "Built a personalised quotation flow with server-side checks and better business logic control.",
        "outcome": "Supported measurable sales growth of roughly 60%."
      },
      {
        "title": "Promo Campaign",
        "year": "2025",
        "problem": "A peak season campaign had to ship quickly without weakening backend control or promotion integrity.",
        "solution": "Led the main development of a secure 3-day promotional build with backend collaboration.",
        "outcome": "Drove over 2,000 new customer sign-ups."
      },
      {
        "title": "Admin Systems & APIs",
        "year": "2025",
        "problem": "Sales and operations teams needed better reporting visibility and more reliable internal workflows.",
        "solution": "Built admin systems and REST APIs for reporting, operations, and customer support flows.",
        "outcome": "Improved reporting reliability and workflow efficiency across teams."
      }
    ],
    "interviewFocus": [
      "Examples of technical decision-making under product or delivery pressure",
      "Preferred ownership scope and team environment",
      "Where this candidate adds the most leverage: product systems, performance work, or frontend-leaning full-stack delivery"
    ]
  },
  "website": {
    "purpose": "A hiring-focused portfolio for recruiters, hiring managers, and engineering leads to quickly understand Daniel White's role fit, selected work, CV, and contact details.",
    "audience": [
      "Recruiters screening software engineering candidates",
      "Hiring managers assessing fit and impact",
      "Engineering managers evaluating technical depth",
      "Recruiting systems or tools summarising the candidate profile"
    ],
    "pages": [
      {
        "path": "/",
        "summary": "Candidate positioning, quantified impact, and recruiter-friendly navigation."
      },
      {
        "path": "/work",
        "summary": "Selected case studies across performance, pricing, internal tools, and backend systems."
      },
      {
        "path": "/cv",
        "summary": "Experience, technical skills, and project history."
      },
      {
        "path": "/recruiter.txt",
        "summary": "Short recruiter-focused candidate summary."
      },
      {
        "path": "/candidate.json",
        "summary": "Structured candidate data for machine-readable evaluation."
      }
    ]
  },
  "prompts": [
    "Summarise this candidate's strongest fit, likely seniority, and top three strengths.",
    "Based on this portfolio, identify the best company environments and team types for this candidate.",
    "Generate a focused interview plan with strengths to test and open questions to clarify."
  ]
}