Daniel Tao
Software Engineer at Various Companies
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Tao is a versatile software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building everything from game engines and compiler tooling to webapps and on-chain systems. He’s worked across startups and established teams—including Microsoft’s Roslyn compiler group, YC-backed startups, and venture-backed game and crypto projects—bringing a generalist’s fluency across stacks and domains. Comfortable as a founding engineer or consultant, he blends product-minded engineering with low-level systems experience and a track record of shipping developer tooling and platform infra. An aspiring ambidextrous tinkerer who also mentors founders (Dorm Room Fund) and explores computational creativity, he pairs practical production chops with curiosity-driven side projects you can peek at on danxtao.com.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
🏫 High School Diploma, 🏫 High School Diploma at Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, IL🔥 YC Work at a Startup, 🔥 YC Work at a Startup at Y Combinator❄️ YES Winternship, ❄️ YES Winternship at Yale University<grad + masters 🌐 Networked and Social Systems Engineering (Hipster CS), <grad + masters 🌐 Networked and Social Systems Engineering (Hipster CS) at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (134)
npm-package10
abi10
code-analysis10
visual-studio10
fetch-api10
fundamentals10
deno10
javascript10
roslyn10
solidity10
listings10
django10
dotnet10
rest10
http-request10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sigmachirality/kohi
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Anime themed personal dashboard browser extension built with Vue.
Contributions:17 commits, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
chrome-extensionweb-extensionbrowservuedashboard
sigmachirality/sigmachirality.github.io
Jul 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
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