Good day!
I'm Dan(iel) Stowell, a software engineer at BuildBuddy.
In the past, I've worked on
- easy web deployment at Vercel,
- making it possible for anyone to write code at Replit,
- private personalization at Canopy,
- Fresh Finds and Daily Mix at Spotify,
- and playlist engines at The Echo Nest.
If you want to talk about builds, Bazel, or BuildBuddy, please write me at dan@buildbuddy.io.
For everything else, please use dstowell@gmail.com.
Life outside the internet
I follow God and attend North Suburban Church.
I live on Chicago's North Shore with my wife, four children, and golden retriever.
I grew up in New England and root for the Red Sox (90%), Celtics (9%), Patriots (1%). I have not yet had time for the Bruins in this life.
A few nerdy questions
- What would compilers and linkers look like if they were invented after the advent of HTTP?
- What do whole-program optimizations unlock if you can assume a program will not need garbage collection or runtime module loading?
- How far can you scale code execution on a single "machine" using ideas from the above two questions?