I’m Cal1 Bryant. I enjoy writing software, electronic design, leadership, DIY, coffee, HiFi audio, cardio/strength training.2 I live in Cambridgeshire with my wife, 2 daughters and our cat.

I currently work at Cydar (a medical imaging technology company) as Head of Engineering after a stint at Broadcom. I studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering (MEng) at the University of Leicester.3

You can check out my CV as HTML or PDF. 4 See also my Github,5 X and LinkedIn profiles.

Generally at work my philosophy is to try to “replace” myself; automate systems and empower team members to produce a robust and effective business unit. This is to allow me to focus on the bigger picture of driving to commercial success.

I tend to hire generalists and look for people that are excited, passionate and have the drive to pursue hobbies in related areas. I find these are the best indicators of someone able to innovate and invent, which is essential in my mind.

I enjoy mentoring and work closely with my team, being careful not to micro-manage. I stay technical, keeping close to system design, architecture and technical decisions.

Despite engineering being a huge motivation for me, I work closely with the commercial team and rest of the leadership to ensure a return on investment for the engineering spend.

Get in touch via email or X regarding anything on this website.6

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  1. Short for “Callan” ↩︎

  2. Badminton, running, cycling and circuit training. Sometimes kayaking. ↩︎

  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. Of note, dstask (terminal git-powered todo app) and dsnet (quick wireguard VPN manager) ↩︎

  6. 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. ↩︎