Daniel Kang
CTO at Skool
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Kang is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer tools across startups and large game and auto companies. Based in Los Angeles, he co-founded Skool and leads its technical strategy while remaining deeply hands-on in Go-based systems engineering. His background spans game engines and large-scale services at Riot Games and Tesla to document automation and cloud tooling he shipped as founder of Coldbrew Cloud. An active open-source contributor, he contributed core parser and tokenizer improvements to d5/tengo, a fast scripting language for Go, reflecting a focus on language design and performance. Known for moving fluidly between founding startups and leading engineering organizations, he blends product-minded leadership with low-level systems craftsmanship. Beyond his CTO role, he quietly builds developer-facing tools and platform automation that accelerate teams’ delivery velocity.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Inha University
English, Korean
Stackoverflow
909reputation
2.1mreached
37answers
8questions
Github Skills (20)
compiler-design10
go10
language-design10
parsing10
vms10
text-parsing10
runtimes9
tokenize9
bytecode9
tokenizer9
hibernate6
sql6
kotlin6
windows6
spring-mvc6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
d5/tengo
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
A fast script language for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 releases, 18 reviews, 241 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the development of the Tengo scripting language, specifically focusing on enhancing its core features and functionalities. Their work involved refactoring the tokenization and parsing components to improve the language's syntax and semantics. Furthermore, the user implemented and refined various built-in functions for type conversions, and added functionality for object allocation limits, demonstrating a focus on performance and language design.
golangscriptembedded-languagescript-languagetengo
coldbrewcloud/tutorial-wordpress
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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