Daniel Tian

Daniel Tian

Daniel Tian

founding eng @ depthfirst - aggressively hiring d:^)

Big Kubernetes Guy

Experience

depthfirstFounding Engineer

2025 — Now

DatabricksSenior Software Engineer

2020 — 2025

2020 — 2025

San Francisco Bay Area

Compute Lifecycle Team

Lots of K8s stuff, lots of cloud stuff.

DatabricksSoftware Engineer Intern

2019 — 2019

2019 — 2019

San Francisco Bay Area

Cloud Platform

AmazonSoftware Development Intern

2018 — 2018

2018 — 2018

Greater Seattle Area

AWS EC2 Recovery Systems

Prospect Heights Park DistrictHead Swim Coach

2016 — 2016

2016 — 2016

Trained 30+ youths to competitively not drown

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Master's Degree

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor’s Degree