Dan B. Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

I’m a senior individual contributor / technical leader at Airbnb.I’m currently on the Web Platform team, which supports things critical to web development at Airbnb like: - continuous integration - browser support - in-house frameworks - experimentation - web development tooling - linting - testingLately I’ve been leading both the Observability squad - structured logging (Thrift schemas) - unstructured logging (Datadog metrics) - error reporting (via Bugsnag, previously Sentry) - alerting (via an in-house system to create Datadog / Grafana monitors)and the Experimentation squad - we implemented and maintain the complex (A/B testing) and simple (on & off switch) systems to launch features at Airbnb without needing to redeploy codeI previously led the Unit Testing squad in which I:* helped strategically rethink testing at Airbnb (3-5yr vision presented to CTO)* rewrote thousands of tests (chai, sinon → jest and enzyme → @testing-library/react) to reduce technical debt (via jscodeshift codemods, contractors, and elbow grease)

Los Angeles, California, United States

I previously worked in the Trust org at Airbnb, which dealt with e.g. anti-fraud, physical safety, bot detection, and user challenges and frictions (think recaptcha or texting a login code).I was the web lead for an Airbnb-wide framework that manages risk detection and enforcement. This framework is implemented with React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Jest / React Testing Library, Redux, and Enzyme.In addition to web, I’ve also helped design, plan, track, and execute projects across all the frontend tech stacks this framework supports (i.e. desktop/mobile web, native Android + iOS).I’ve also: - designed & implemented funnel metrics + time spent to measure and optimize business critical flows - acted as an oncall / handled business critical matters on urgent timelines - furthered bot detection across Airbnb / helped Google solve recaptcha bugs (we found → they fixed → we verified) - championed privacy, code quality, and technical direction + refactor - volunteered as a frontend architecture interviewer - created an org-wide, dynamic careers page to recruit technical talent

Hollywood, Ca

I led the web department for Quibi (a well-funded started based in LA that shutdown in 11/2020, https://quibi-hq.medium.com/an-open-letter-from-quibi-8af6b415377f). - I was responsible for multiple react-based, high-traffic websites (ex: https://quibi.com). - I was in charge of keeping these sites: fast, accessible, secured, tested, and reusable. - I helped bring Quibi's premium content to TV with Chromecast. - I developed and maintained strategically important partner offer pages (ex: T-Mobile, Walmart). - I worked with marketing to create campaign landing pages that inspire growth. - I created a system of JS proto bindings + twirp to unify backend integrations w/ mobile apps.Stack: node, react, firebase, sass, JSPB, twirp, docker, circleci, github.

Venice, Ca

Then switched back to Chrome: - reskinned all of Chrome's web UIs myself for dark mode (e.g. Mac OS X Mojave, Win10) - led Chrome's desktop New Tab page team (super visible surface w/ tons of traffic)

Venice, Ca

Switched to Google Assistant: - worked on the "higher-level" brains (ranking, understanding) behind Google Home / "OK Google".

Venice, Ca

uber tech lead for: - Settings UI (team of up to 19 over ~2.5y) - History page (team of ~4) - Extensions page (~3) - Downloads page (~me)

Venice, Ca

misc things: - Autofill / requestAutocomplete[1] - whisper to disks (asking "Are you an SSD?") - trace what Chrome asks your disks ("Does that file exist?") - make Chrome better for folks with disabilities (a11y) - typecheck many thousands of lines of JavaScript continuously - contribute to Polymer[2] - present at Google I/O[3][1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/forms/requestautocomplete/[2] https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M50AXPd0Tg

Venice, Ca

Helped rewrite Chrome's New Tab and Settings UIs.

Westwood, California, United States

Taught Computer Science 130 - Software Engineering at UCLA with 3 other Googlers.

Helped refactor and "modernize" new version of Yahoo! News to a more central stack (using PHP, CSS, JavaScript). Additionally, harnessed my efficient/lazy hacker powers to create small tools and scripts used by many developers all throughout Yahoo!'s media dept.Also helped refactor/add to a completely browser-based media player called Yahoo! Web Player. It's no longer maintained, but it played and recognize content on internal and external sites.

Contractor, helping w/ London 2012 Olympics ticketing website.I helped create and maintain a test automation system that basically acts a commit hook to run tests when developers check in changes (for continuous integration purposes). I wrote many of the functional tests to be used with this system. I also created a "browser lab" where QA and other developers can locally or remotely test client-side performance and compatibility of our sites across browsers and platforms.I implemented security enhancements, fixed many functional and content bugs, thought up new features to yield better user experience, and was also involved in the requirements gathering and time estimation. I additionally authored or maintained a couple of small tools to help improve internal workflow and ease the lives of fellow developers and testers (like bookmarklets to do mundane tasks, enhancing of a remote deployment daemon). I also refactored and modularized the Olympics' client-side code to be more autonomous and extensible.I also worked briefly on ticketmaster.com and livenation.com (which sneakily switched to Ticketmaster's stack after their merger). I made style changes, added enhancements, worked on feature migration and integration, and helped make sure these changes did not affect other sites on the same infrastructure (regression tested).

Worked for AEG on Staples Center and LA Live's websites.Used mainly open source technologies in a very high-traffic, clustered environment.Some domains I worked on:- staplescenter.com- grammymuseum.org- homedepotcenter.com- latennischamps.com- nokiatheatrelalive.com- aegliveme.com- anaheimarena.comSome websites I ripped apart and put back together:- lalive.com- savethegrunt.comI helped developer a custom CMS in PHP, PEAR / PECL, and MySQL. I helped on the front-end via UI feature work in HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery, learned the wonders of Apache's mod_rewrite, and did some security and performance analysis. I ended up fixing issues systemic to all of AEG's websites dealing with XSS, SQL injection, and/or arbitrary execution exploits.

Part of a team of 3 that developed, designed, and administered www.mtsac.edu. I was also lead programmer for all server-side (PHP/MySQL) and client-side (Javascript) scripting, responsible for almost all interactive features as well as a homepage redesign.

I worked in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum environment for a collaborative business mgmt tool (centraldesktop.com). I was responsible for fixing bugs, adding features, giving input (during scrum planning), and helping develop a site with over hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

Sole developer of main domain, dailytitan.com, and various subdomains: history.dailytitan.com, archive.dailytitan.com (they even won awards!).I also created an online yearbook / community for CSU Fullerton while with The Daily Titan (titanyearbook.com), as well as posted the online news items and ads in early morning hours.