Dan Birken
Founder at Screwball.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Birken is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building product, infrastructure, and growth engineering teams across Silicon Valley. Based in San Francisco, he has held leadership roles from VP of Engineering at Thumbtack to Head of SEO at Substack, and now runs Screwball.com, a real-time sports search startup. He blends hands-on engineering with marketing and SEO expertise—previously supporting both paid and organic growth at Pilot and Substack—and has contributed to the pandas open-source project by improving plotting and boolean handling for data analysis workflows. Trained as a computer engineer at USC, Dan pairs rigorous technical depth with a flair for craft: outside software he builds high-quality custom furniture found in Silicon Valley homes. Known for scaling teams and systems, he excels at turning data and infrastructure investments into measurable traffic and product outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Southern California
Github Skills (9)
data-visualizations10
pandas10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
data-analysis10
data-science9
numpy9
testing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pandas-dev/pandas
Mar 2012 - Mar 2015
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:20 commits, 9 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the pandas library by addressing bugs and enhancing plotting functionalities. They improved the handling of boolean data in numeric operations, ensuring correct behavior within the describe() function. Additionally, the user added features to plotting, such as the ability to plot on secondary y-axes for bar plots and a new layout keyword for histogram plots. These changes suggest a focus on data analysis and visualization capabilities within the pandas framework.
pythondatalabeled-datamanipulationdataframes
danbirken/configuration
May 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 years 11 months
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