Daniel Friedman

• Led technical design and implementation of user-facing payment flows, fueling corridor growth across Europe, Africa, USA, UAE, Asia, South America, and Central America
• Launched product and internal tooling to manage KYC complexity, alleviating customer spending limits and reducing operational friction
• Delivered across the SDLC by defining and delegating projects, directing releases, monitoring, rollout, and on-call
• Cultivated technical initiatives through RFCs, architectural collaboration, and targeted rewrites to improve the reliability and performance of critical-path workflows

• Built features for a novel realtime multiplayer app to manage retrospective meetings
• Launched new authentication flows
• Translated designs into component library

• Architected applications and core libraries for Solid, a decentralized social data platform led by Tim Berners-Lee
• Prototyped twinql, a query language to aggregate data across the semantic web
• Raised technical standards through consistent code reviews, increased testing, and targeted refactors

• Built features used by millions for cooperative learning, course composition, and analysis of learner engagement
• Dramatically increased web accessibility across the platform

Compilers, Artificial Intelligence, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Computer and Information Security, Theory of Computer Science, Algorithms

• Attended the Recurse Center, a 12-week programming retreat in summer 2024
• Built moire, a polyrhythmic granular synthesizer for the web
• Worked on music production, picked up new instruments, and recorded throughout 2024-2025