# Daniel Robbins

> Founding Engineer at Pravāh

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielrobbins

Solving important software problems that combat climate change. Not open to new opportunities at this time.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Pravāh
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Developing products for weather forecasting and electricity forecasting.

We are hiring! https://www.pravah.com/

### Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack @ Aurora Solar
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026

### Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack @ Aurora Solar
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
• Joined Aurora via acquisition of Folsom Labs in August 2021
• Continuing to work on HelioScope

### Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack @ Folsom Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Seventh engineering hire to a small, elite team building HelioScope: the leading tool for commercial solar installers to design solar panel installations and simulate their energy production.
    • Single-handedly reduced company’s AWS bill 17% by implementing auto-scaling of EC2 instances. Created a build/deploy system using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).
    • Worked with another engineer to reimplement SaaS billing system to support new types of Stripe products and subscriptions in preparation for new product launch.
    • Streamlined and maintained much of the infrastructure, including asynchronous task system (Celery), logging, monitoring/alerting, and deploy tools (Heroku, AWS).
    • Sped up production deploys by 5x, enabled them to be run remotely on slower networks
    • Implemented countless full-stack features for upcoming proposals web app, using React, Redux, Flask, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL.
    • Implemented several internal productivity tools for the Sales/Support team
    • Maintained current production web app, using Angular.
    • Pushed team to formalize/improve on processes. Active participant on hiring panel.
    • Mentored junior engineers, managed an intern who implemented two key features.

### Senior Software Engineer - Backend @ Blizzard Entertainment
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Irvine, California, United States
• Led team of 3 engineers in architecture, design and implementation of a stateless microservice for managing voice chat channels.
• Coordinated development with Battle.net, Business Intelligence, QA, and Customer Service.

### Software Engineer - Backend @ Blizzard Entertainment
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Irvine, California, United States
• Designed, implemented, and maintained dozens of key features for critically acclaimed games Heroes of the Storm and StarCraft 2, which have massive peak concurrency and 99.9% uptime.
    • Designed and implemented several other services, including stateless progression microservice central to driving sales and user retention.
    • Wrote libraries—used by team of fifteen engineers—to improve code maintainability, reduce bugs, and reduce crashes.
    • Wrote services in C++, using NGINX, CentOS (Linux) stack. Wrote integration tests in C#. 
    • Designed and implemented MySQL schemas and stored procedures.

### Associate Software Engineer - Backend @ Blizzard Entertainment
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Irvine, California, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Blizzard Entertainment
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Irvine, CA
Pitched, designed, and implemented the Data Navigator in C++: a node graph data visualization tool for StarCraft 2 and Heroes of the Storm game designers. Also used by StarCraft 2 modding community.

### Graphics Engineer Intern @ Sugarcane Games
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Stanford University Computer Graphics Lab
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Stanford University

### Software Engineer Intern @ BMW
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Munich, Germany
* Developed C++ program analyzing BMW car data to detect traffic jams. 
* Found/fixed key bugs in shared libraries. 
* Effectively collaborated with coworkers in German with just 6 months prior German knowledge.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Stanford University Distributed Systems Lab
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Stanford University


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### Punahou School
Jan 2001 – Jan 2009


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/d-robbins

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Last updated: 2026-03-22