Dan Fessler
Senior Software Engineer at Incite Interactive
California, United States
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SeniorDan Fessler is a senior software engineer and creative technology leader with nearly two decades of experience bridging visual design and engineering across mobile, social, AI, and UGC platforms. A self-taught coder who began as a production artist, he has shipped over 20 commercial titles and built open-source tooling adopted at scale, combining a visual-first sensibility with hands-on engineering. He co-founded and leads an a16z-funded AI-first games studio building an agentic game engine and life-sim AI agents, while also contributing enterprise-grade creator tooling and visual programming prototypes. At companies from Zynga to Manticore and now Roblox, he’s scaled art and engineering teams, mentored leaders, and shipped editor features that empower creators. He’s notable for translating designer intent into robust technical systems—often prototyping novel UI and visual programming solutions that compile to game runtimes.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (93)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DanFessler/slack-royale
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
The battle royale you didn't know you needed
Contributions:25 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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DanFessler/basin
Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:60 commits, 48 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 5 months
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