Software Engineer at Square
Hello. I'm Daniel and I work at Square as a Software Engineer. Previously I worked at Weebly (acquired by Square) doing backend development, and prior to my startup life, I developed and maintained news alerts and APIs for The Wall Street Journal. On weekends, I like working out, volunteering, running, movies, eating out and coding personal projects. Before New York City, I lived in Upstate New York and Japan. I was born and raised in China.
I probably have spent much more time coding than blogging or updating my website so my GitHub contains more recent projects.
Here are some of the applications and development tools I'm most familiar with:
Heroku and Google Cloud are my choices for personal project hosting, and Python is my favorite scripting language. This is because of its elegance, and the fact that I don't have to deal with brackets and semicolons. I also have working knowledge of JavaScript, some Node.js based frameworks and NoSQL databases. I'm always thinking about new project ideas and how to put my knowledge into good practice.
Besides Chinese (my native language), I also speak English, Spanish, Japanese (JLPT N1) and am learning Arabic (FusHa).
Here are some projects from either my hobbies or job. FYI, there are some projects not listed because they are in early stage development, or not ready to showcase.
Backed by machine learning, [Insert Inspirational Quote Here] es una sistema de recomendación traversal lingual para citas en español, so you can mix English and Spanish like this. It's a "Just For Fun" project.
Stack: Python, Flask, Vue.js
Find your therapist match with Emotivo Health. I have long been a mental health advocate, so along with two friends, we built Emotivo Health to help people finding their therapists.
Stack: Django, Python, PostgreSQL, React
1KG More is a simple tool that allows nonprofit organizations to post project destinations, along with a list of items that could be used or are needed for the project. Travelers who happen to travel to the same destination can sign up and choose how much and what they are willing to carry (for the organization), starting at 1kg.
Stack: Django, Python, PostgreSQL, Celery, AngularJS
Where’s My Car is an easy to use app with an intuitive interface that tracks where you parked, and helps you find your car. The app's features include: save your car’s location, view road and satellite maps and open saved locations in your phone’s navigation.
Stack: Android, Java, Google Maps API
Voted as one of the 40 Best Free Responsive WordPress Themes for 2012, Pilot Fish is a minimal and elegant WordPress portfolio theme. It is inspired by the novel 『パイロットフィッシュ』(by Osaki Yoshio) I read while living in Sendai, Japan. It is said that a pilot fish is the fish you keep in the fish tank before a tropical fish, so as to develop a sustainable environment for which to thrive later. I called my first WordPress theme Pilot Fish hoping it would help me learn more about WordPress, and contribute to better themes in the future.
A Few Websites Made With Pilot Fish
Stack: WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery