Dan Vanderkam

Dan Vanderkam is a Principal Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. He previously worked on open source genome visualizations at Mt. Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine and on Google search features used by billions of people (search for "sunset nyc" or "population of france"). He has a long history of building open source projects and is a cofounder of the NYC TypeScript meetup. When he's not programming, Dan enjoys climbing rocks and playing bridge. He writes on Medium and at danvk.org. Dan is a native of South Bend, Indiana. He earned his bachelor's in computer science from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.