Dan Cascaval
Technical Lead at Branch 3D
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Cascaval is a Technical Lead and software engineer with a decade of experience building tools that bridge design, fabrication, and structural performance. Based in Seattle, he leads development at Branch 3D, evolving a CAD platform for mass-timber systems that connects concept design to fabrication with a focus on reliability and performance. His background blends compiler and systems thinking—he’s taught compiler design and software construction—into geometry-heavy tooling summarized on GitHub as "shapes & compilers." Dan’s work spans full-stack product engineering (TypeScript, Go, GraphQL, Postgres) and research-driven fabrication projects from his time at Carnegie Mellon and StructureCraft. He holds MS and PhD studies in computer science from the University of Washington and a BA combining computer science and architecture from Carnegie Mellon, a combination that fuels his knack for turning computational ideas into practical design tools. An understated throughline in his career is translating deep technical abstractions into usable design workflows that accelerate real-world construction.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts Computer Science Architecture, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (24)
dotty8
rhino8
crossword8
rhino3d8
revit-api7
trinitycore7
scalajs6
grasshopper6
scala6
scala-native6
high-performance5
parallel5
threejs5
3d4
compiler4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dcascaval/Impala
Jun 2018 - May 2024
Parallel High-Performance Components for Rhino/Grasshopper
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 61 pushes in 5 years 11 months
crosswordtrinitycoreparallelgrasshopperrevit-api
dcascaval/portfolio
Jan 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
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