Summary
Daniel Perano is a Senior Software Engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building high-performance systems from the instruction level to distributed multiplayer platforms. As CEO and lead developer of MyWorld, LLC, he architected the MyWorld engine and created the Chipmunk scripting language to enable real-time virtual worlds at Internet scale. He specializes in JVM performance and low-level optimization—covering algorithms, memory layout, custom bytecode, VMs, and hardware-accelerated graphics—while shipping production systems in Java, Python, C/C++, C#, SQL, and Go. Currently at Optum, he brings both startup grit and enterprise engineering discipline to system design and optimization. Known for finding elegantly simple solutions to hard problems, he’s equally comfortable in assembly as he is leading product-facing features. Based in California, he combines lifelong learning with a sustained passion for exploring and applying recent JVM and language-performance breakthroughs.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
English, German