Meet the ShelfCat team

Dan gained his PhD in 18th Century History from the University of Cambridge in 2019. He is currently working at the University of York on a postdoc researching Charles Burney Jr. In the past, he has won visiting fellowships to Harvard and McGill. He has two cats, thousands of books, and an in-retrospect-irritating propensity to handwrite notes.

A ginger and white cat lies on a duvet with its head resting on an open book.

A fluffy black cat lies on a wooden table with a copy of The Hobbit.

Caro has a degree in linguistics and over six years of experience working in startups, writing a variety of languages from Clojure in consulting, Python in medical devices, to JavaScript in the digital humanities. She is passionate about open source software and open standards, and ensuring her tools work together. In her spare time, she plays folk dance music with her band Flying Cat, and hangs out with her cat, guinea pigs, and a book.