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