Daniel A. Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

• Built a data analysis and synthetic data generation platform from the ground up (k8s, NodeJS, tailwind)• Built a rack-scale GPU cluster for training in-house foundation models• Used pgvector to perform automatic and interactive clustering of imagesBreakpoint creates synthetic data for computer vision AI using diffusion models.

Funemployment!

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Worked in Android Security.• Added LLDB debugger support to a key part of the Pixel firmware (trusted execution environment)• Built a portal for Android OEMs to upload device public keys to from their factories• Created the first integration test between the Android monorepo and google3 monorepo using (hard to believe but we could find *no* prior art!)Key takeaway: I became a software engineer to build things, so the extra pay at big companies is not enough compensation for the slower speed of development.

Distributed Team, Us

• Rebuilt Webflow MVP into a TypeScript monorepo as the first full-stack engineer• Migrated production Firebase DB to Heroku Postgres with minimal downtime• Kept infrastructure /as simple as possible/ with Heroku+Vercel+Github Actions• Developed key features including an AI-generated blog wizard and real-time collaborative editingKey takeaway: Fast-growing engineering and product driven teams are fun to work on.

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Built IoT door sensors that streamed bathroom availability information to in-office displays• Maintained a Ruby on Rails loan origination system and servicing platform• Built a Ruby on Rails employee directory and authentication service• Developed dev-ops infrastructure to support a growing engineering team• Documented on-boarding practices to speed up time-to-first-commitKey takeaway: Leadership matters. The founders of Point are amazing at their jobs and built an awesome team.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Worked on a project for automated machine learning pipeline generation.https://github.com/EpistasisLab/tpot

• Created a Ruby on Rails web application to manage on-street handicap parking zones• Created a Ruby on Rails/ReactJS web application to handle invoicing of garage parking passes• Worked with other departments to gather requirementsKey takeaway: Being given total project ownership for a co-op position let me grow rapidly.