Daniel Kao
Senior Software Engineer at Rivian
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Kao is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance front-end and geospatial systems for newsrooms, nonprofits, government, and startups from San Jose. He has led teams that engineered live election architectures and rebuilt mapping stacks at scale—supporting millions of page views during major elections—while also delivering interactive exhibits and geospatial analysis tools for organizations like the Exploratorium and Wilderness Society. Comfortable across the full stack, Daniel blends cartography expertise (MS in Geographic Information Science) with production-grade web engineering honed at The New York Times and The Washington Post. He favors pragmatic tooling and automation—his terse GitHub motto while (*dst++=*src++); hints at a C-style sensibility—and has a record of reorganizing workflows and internal tooling to speed delivery. His eclectic background, from federal education tech to grassroots nonprofits, gives him a knack for translating complex data into compelling, publishable visual stories.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Master of Science - MS Geographic Information Science and Cartography at University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of California, San DiegoCybersecurity, Cybersecurity at New York University
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Github Skills (115)
scroll10
javascript10
atlas10
playback10
topojson10
vue10
controlled10
svelte10
react10
docker-in-docker9
node-application9
npm-version9
latin9
js9
parliament9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dkaoster/csvs-update-sqlite
Jan 2022 - Sep 2023
Convert CSV files into a SQLite database
Contributions:16 releases, 4 reviews, 5 PRs in 1 year 8 months
csvsqlite-database
dkaoster/taiwan-atlas
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Pre-built TopoJSON from the Ministry of the Interior.
Contributions:22 releases, 33 commits, 51 PRs in 9 months
topojsontaiwanatlas
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