Dan Anuar (ꦢꦺꦤ꧀ꦄꦤ꧀ꦮꦂ) was born in Singapore in 1998. He attended St. Joseph’s Institution for his secondary education, completing his GCE ‘O’ Levels. An early enthusiast of trains, he coded train and route add-ons, titled “Sidesville Add-Ons,” for the OpenBVE train simulator in 2010.
From 2016 to 2018, Dan served his full-time national service in the Singapore Police Force as an In-Situ Reaction Team (IRT) Trooper. He also pursued creative projects, authoring and publishing his first book of street photography, Little Gray Dot, in 2016. In 2018, he developed and published his first Android application, Hourrency, designed to track savings goals by converting prices into work hours.
Following his service, Dan published Gampang in 2019, a book compiling the essentials of reading the Javanese Script (Aksara Jawa) through creative graphics. That same year, he released the Aircraft Crash Survivability Estimation Tool, an app that calculates crash forces to determine survivability against Eiband curve charts.
He then pursued higher education in aviation, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2020. Between 2020 and 2021, he also worked in COVID-19 swab operations, earning the COVID-19 Resilience Medal for his service. He later earned a Master of Science in Air Transport Management with Distinction from the University of Surrey. Building on his master’s studies, he published a journal article in the Journal of Air Transport Management titled “Investigating the impacts of ASEAN-EU comprehensive air transport agreement on the carriers’ competitive dynamics.” Currently, Dan works as a Commercial Product Owner at British Airways, where he was also featured as a Nobleman in the airline’s 2024 safety video.
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