Daniel Arrizza

Current status: Management + Technical

Technical Lead and Manager at Databricks. Currently based in Toronto
Systems Design Engineering Grad from the University of Waterloo

What was your previous gig?: Was a Senior Consultant at AppDynamics (now a part of Cisco). Was fun to work with customers on their devops challenges, which usually turned out to be organizational problems (surprise!).

I heard you did a startup???: I was the Co-Founder and CEO of BuyingBud which helps non-techies figure out what electronics to buy. Didn't exactly work out, but hey! that's life.

Where have you lived?: I'm in Toronto now. Have previously lived in Toronto, Waterloo, Ottawa (4 months), San Francisco (a year and a half), China (10 months), and Taipei (10 months).

Are you using the lastest Erlang/Vue.js/Node/React stack?: Pretty close. NodeJS/Express/React/GraphQL

Do you speak any languages?: I speak English (natively), Mandarin (intermediate), and do many other bad accent impressions. Working on Spanish, French, and Cantonese now.

你真的會講中文嗎？: 簡單的都可以！我自學5年中文，住過中國大陸10個月，還有臺灣10個月。

Favourite YouTube channels?: I'm a big fan of The School of Life, Crash Course, and Wisecrack.

I hear you like dancing?: How did you hear that? My favourite is fusion and blues dancing. I would go at least twice a week when I was living in Taipei. Swing dancing is also a lot of fun.

I hear that you're trying to get strong: Yes, I'm doing powerlifting following the Starting Strength model.

How do I get in touch with you?: Send me an email at daniel.arrizza@gmail.com