Dan Fingal-surma
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Fingal-surma is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years building highly scalable, low-latency, strongly consistent backend systems that power the social web. A long-tenured Googler since 2005, he has progressed through engineering ranks to lead design and delivery of critical distributed systems at massive scale. He blends deep systems and distributed-data expertise with a pragmatic focus on operational reliability and performance. Dan's academic background includes degrees from UCLA and Stanford, reflecting strong theoretical grounding paired with production experience. Colleagues know him for tackling thorny consistency and latency trade-offs and for turning complex architectural constraints into simple, maintainable services. He brings the institutional knowledge of a decade-plus at one of the world's largest platforms while still favoring hands-on engineering over purely managerial roles.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at University of California, Los AngelesMaster's Degree, Master's Degree at Stanford University
Github Skills (13)
async9
kotlin9
coroutines9
kotlin-library9
kotlin-coroutines8
kotlin-multiplatform8
homebrew-formula3
hhvm2
julia2
homebrew1
macos1
api1
zapier1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dfings/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:731 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
dfings/mmsh
Feb 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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