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Dan Dascalescu
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Developer advocate, software engineer, startup entrepreneur. Contract SWE at Anthropic developing the Google Sheets™ Claude integration add-on.

Co-founded the Blueseed visa-free startup ship and several startups in edtech and fintech. Running the Quantified Self Forum, the #1 online community for self-trackers).

Former Developer Advocate at Google - Progressive Web Apps (PWA), Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), Chrome OS, AR (Lens), and Weaviate - the AI native vector database. Former software engineer at Yahoo!.

More about me on on Wikipedia.

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Entrepreneurship and disruptive technologies, AI, longevity/biotech. Applying ~20 years of experience in software development and ~10 in the startup world in CTO roles at emergent tech companies.

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