Daniel Karaj

I'm a Software Engineer from London. I've worked for the Government Digital Service, Google and the University of Tokyo.

I studied Computer Science at the University of Cambridge and Global Innovation Design at the Royal College of Art and Imperial.

GOV.UK Chat

AI-powered government chatbot that allows answers based on GOV.UK guidance.

Retrieval Augmented Generation, ChatGPT and Ruby on Rails.

2024

Whitehall

Content management system to publish accessible up-to-date content on GOV.UK.

Ruby on Rails and Javascript

2021 - 24

GOV.UK Greenhouse

A project exploring the future of Digital Government through speculative design methodologies.

User research and co-design.

2023

Ripple

DLX research into an immersive user interface for autonomous buses.

NodeJS, Vue and WebSockets.

2022

Eggriculture

Speculative exploration into using household chickens to reframe lab grown meat.

2021

Cymatic Projection

An exploration in analogue music visualisation.

Water, audio equipment, light and laser cut acrylic.

2021

Attune

DLX project to bring nailfold capillary microscopy to a wider audience.

Neural Network based Object Detection, OpenCV and Flask.

2020

Center Gai

Excellence Award winner at the Shibuya Pixel Art 2020 Exhibition.

Pixel Art.

2020

Google Calendar

A rich web application with hundreds of millions of users.

TypeScript and Wiz.

2016 - 19

Portraits

Archive of portraiture using mixed media.

Graphite, Coloured Pencil and Gouache on Kraft Paper.

2016 - 18

Photography

Archive of digital photography focusing on pattern and colour.

2014 - 18

Traffic

A visual simulation of the effects of braking on Traffic.

2017

May Ball Ticketing

A ticketing system spanning the entire process from handling online purchases to front of house.

Django and Android.

2016

Life Drawing

Archive of charcoal life drawings.

Charcoal on newsprint paper.

2013 - 16

Dissertation

Proof of concept exploring the use of Unikernal Servers for Internet of Things devices.

OCaml.

2016

Assorted Web Design

Archive of freelance web design work.

HTML, CSS and Javascript.

2012 - 16

Assorted Graphic Design

Archive of freelance graphic design work.

Posters, Flyers, Books and Clothing.

2012 - 16

Analog Photography

Archive of analog photography taken using various refurbished film cameras.

Medium Format and 35mm.

2015 - 16

Voio

A web service to find two second “moments” in long video clips.

NodeJS and OpenCV.

2015

Lighting Design

Archive of lighting design at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge.

2014 - 15

In a Hole in the Ground

An art project culminating in a A1 watercolour on book pages.

Concentrated watercolour and foam board.

2013

Trails

Art project, capturing the invisible components of a landscape using light.

Photography.

2012

Skies

Art project culminating in a large oil painting constructed using many layers of semi-transparent oil paint.

Oil paint on board.

2012

Masks

Art project culminating in a series of watercolour paintings of masked figures.

Concentrated watercolor on cartridge paper.

2012