About Me

Hello! I'm Dan. I am a developer advocate at Databricks working on all things AI. This is my personal site. Expect a mix of Emacs, Databricks, and AI writing, published at irregular intervals.

Before Databricks, I worked at bit.io, a fast, developer-friendly hosted Postgres. I used it to manage data for research and writing projects, covering topics like methane emissions, Bayesian statistics, labor turnover, and U.S. House representation.

Earlier, I was Director of Data Analytics at the Guinn Center for Policy Priorities in Las Vegas, where I led data-driven policy analysis across public health, climate, and the 2020 Census.

I studied History of Science (B.A., University of Chicago) and Statistics (M.S., University of Minnesota). In 2018, I was a graduate research fellow in the Data Science for the Public Good program at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech. I’ve also taken on consulting projects for nonprofits and companies.

This site is build with Emacs org mode. You can find all the code and configuration here.