About Me

I'm Dan.

I’ve been programming since I was 11, when I first taught myself Unity and C#.

While studying Computer Science at the University of Michigan, I launched over a dozen mobile apps — including games that surpassed 100,000 downloads — and collaborated with top mobile game studios like Voodoo and Lion Studios.

After college I created MintyBrain, an educational startup that aimed to make math visual, intuitive, and interactive for kids. We reached thousands of users, raised $1M in funding, and assembled a small team to bring it to life.

In 2022 it became clear that generative AI would reshape education more profoundly than what we were building. I reimagined the product as an AI-powered math tutor, solo-building agent frameworks, tool calling, prompting logic, a lesson scripting language, and a full AI toolchain in C#.

But after two more years of building, Unity’s ecosystem proved limiting, lacking support for modern LLM workflows. I was reinventing the stack while others leveraged emerging AI libraries to accelerate.

I made the hard decision to wind the company down and refocus on where the future of AI is moving.

I’m now exploring the frontier of AI infrastructure — building AI-native data pipelines, tracking the global buildout across compute, energy, and chips, and developing agentic systems that reason over complex data to generate insight and action.

If you're building something ambitious, or think we should talk:
reach out here.