Daniel Mestas. The one person behind Craft Design Group.

I’ve been shipping software for about fourteen years. Most of it has been the kind a business runs on: line-of-business systems, operator software, donor platforms, fintech and insurance back ends. I’ve led engineering teams and I still write code every day. When something is hard to debug, I’m usually the one who gets the call.

Craft Design Group is just me. Businesses hire me to work out how their software should behave for the people who use it, and then to build it. I care about two things in particular: software that feels good to use, and software that runs fast. Much of what I build runs on tools I wrote myself, such as zit, a Fossil-compatible version control system, and dagnats, a workflow engine on NATS.

I’m also building Firestorm DataWorks, which helps pilots and dispatchers see what matters in the NOTAMs and weather for their flight.

If you have software work and want to talk it through, send me an email.