About Me

My Story

I’m Daniel, a software engineer at Roblox and a photographer from Sunnyvale, California. I’m still based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but I spend much of my free time exploring with a camera.

Growing up in Silicon Valley’s suburban sprawl, I was curious about places that looked and felt different from home. That curiosity has taken me to over 40 countries. I’m drawn to the way cities take shape, the scale of the natural world, and the patterns that turn up in places thousands of miles apart.

Photography gives me a reason to slow down and pay attention. I like finding a view, a detail, or a moment that changes how I see a place. The galleries here are collections I’ve chosen to share that perspective.

When I’m not behind a camera or a keyboard, I enjoy long-distance running, rock climbing, and scuba diving. I’ve summited Half Dome and run multiple half-marathons and marathons.

I’ve spent over six years at Roblox working on translation and language technologies. Before that, I studied computer science at UC Berkeley, where I taught databases and computer architecture and helped other students through Computer Science Mentors. I later completed my master’s in computer science at Stanford.