Daniel Danciu
CTO at Cradle Bio
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDaniel Danciu is a CTO and engineering leader with 11+ years of experience translating research-grade algorithms into production-grade systems, currently steering Cradle Bio’s machine learning efforts to revolutionize protein design. He blends deep academic credentials—a PhD in genetic algorithms—with hands-on product engineering at Google where he helped kick off the technology behind Google Cast and scaled YouTube services to billions of devices. Previously he led multidisciplinary teams at Daedalean to build an autopilot capable of passing human pilot exams and at ETH Zürich worked on scaling Metagraph to index global DNA sequences. Daniel is equally comfortable designing models and writing low-level, production code that runs on thousands of servers and hundreds of millions of consumer devices. His career shows a recurring pattern: start from research, prototype across stacks and devices, then ship robust, audited systems to production. Based in Zurich, he combines scientific rigor with a penchant for delightful user experiences and end-to-end ownership.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul Național de Informatică "Gr. Moisil” BrașovUniversitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-NapocaMaster of Science (MSc), Applied Mathematics, 10.00, Master of Science (MSc), Applied Mathematics, 10.00 at Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov
German, English, French, Hungarian, Romanian
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Github Skills (123)
package-management10
genomics10
rna-seq10
scalable10
graph10
conda10
metagenomics10
assembly10
indexing10
bioinformatics10
bioconda9
build-system9
sequencing9
bazel9
gridengine8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ratschlab/secedo
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Clustering tumor cells based on SNVs from single-cell sequencing data
Contributions:8 releases, 470 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 2 months
clusteringsequencingbioinformaticsgenomicssingle-cell
ratschlab/Project2020-seq-tensor-sketching
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:39 reviews, 113 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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