Dan has been coding all his life, but it had always been tangential to his career until early 2018 when he caught the machine learning bug and decided to make a career pivot. More recently, Dan has been focusing specifically on NLP. In his free time Dan loves playing all sorts of board games (Dice Forge, Puerto Rico, Stone Age, Seven Wonders, Dominion, etc.) and this Codenames competition ties together so many of Dan's passions!