Dan Bornstein
Staff Engineer at Common Tools
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Bornstein is a Staff Engineer in San Francisco with 21 years of experience building low-level runtimes, virtual machines, compilers and systems-level software. He is best known as the tech lead who designed and implemented the Dalvik VM, the .dex executable format and core Android libraries, but his career spans startups and founding roles focused on redecentralization and platform engineering. Comfortable in C, Java, JavaScript and assembler, he moves between language design, OS internals and pragmatic product needs, having shipped infrastructure at Google, Slack, Medium and Nextbit. An active open-source contributor, he improved HTML export and template clarity for the widely used Etherpad-lite project, reflecting a taste for polishing developer-facing tooling. Collected experience across founding teams and major products gives him a rare blend of architect-level rigor and hands-on coding fluency.
21 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science, Cognitive Science at Brown UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, Computer Science, International Baccalaureate, Computer Science at St Petersburg High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
collaboration9
rich-text-editor9
garbage-collection9
android9
nodejs8
gcc6
dalvik6
shell6
macos6
bash6
awk6
java6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ether/etherpad-lite
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 15 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan focused on enhancing the HTML export functionality of the Etherpad-lite project. They refactored the code to use EEJS templates for HTML export, improving code readability and maintainability. Furthermore, the user addressed alignment issues by accounting for top margins in the first line of the pad content. The commits also included the removal of unused parameters and fixing of typos, refining the project's code quality.
signature-paddocxcollaborationpdf-generationcollaborative-framework
danfuzz/useful-bits
Aug 2022 - Nov 2024
Useful bits of code, with no better place to live.
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 4 months
placebits
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