Daniel Benson is a Staff Software Engineer at Google. Colleagues describe him as "Dan is simply one of the best people I have worked with. We have worked together on many projects and its absolutely some of the best work I have ever done. Technically savvy and even good artistic sense, Dan is that rare engineer that bridges the gap between art and code. Always looking to push to boundaries and implement the latest cutting edge techniques, I can count on Dan to give us the best. Fight Night and Def Jam look so good because of Dan. There is not a doubt in my mind that Dan is one the most talented people I have worked with. I will miss working with him and I would work with him again any time. If you don't hire him your crazy." and "Some of my very best work was done while working in conjunction with Dan on prototyping Fight Night Round 3's graphical look. Dan is an awesome rendering engineer to work with from a technical art perspective. He isn't afraid to dabble in Maya when he needs to in order to figure something out specifically. From my perspective, he seems extremely versed versitile, based on the areas he's worked with. He not only did some great work with Fight Night's graphical look, but is responsible for much of the advancement of EA Chicago's material pipeline and rendering architecture. I would love the opportunity to work with Dan again."