Dan got his start in software engineering at age 13, driven by one noble goal: to make cars fly and pistols shoot rockets in Halo 2 online.

Over 20 years later, he's now a Staff Software Engineer at Meta, where he's led large teams to move fast (and break things, occasionally) across a wide range of tech stacks and products. He’s worked on everything from scaling data ingestion for Workplace – Meta’s enterprise collaboration platform – to building unique platform-native user interactions for Messenger’s macOS and Windows apps. Most recently, he's worked on Meta's world-building and game development platform - Horizon Worlds.

At his core, Dan cares about polished UX, thoughtful design, and the tiny details users don’t notice—until they’re missing. He’s known for pushing teams to move faster, build better, and raise the bar.

Outside of work, he enjoys doom-scrolling cat videos on TikTok, and travelling the world - mostly to find more cats to chase after in person.