About

Where am I from? Born in 🇷🇺, grew up in 🇮🇱, and spent my formative years 🇨🇦 before moving to the 🇺🇸 to pursue my professional career.

Who am I? I’m a life-long 🧑‍🎓 looking to leave an impactful mark on this 🌎 through deep thinking 🤔, hard work 👷, collaboration and technological innovation 🧑‍🔬. Standing on the shoulders of giants such John Carmack, Stephen Wolfram and Richard Feynman, amongst many others, I’m increasingly motivated that we have such individuals in our world.

What’s my motto? Figure out what you want-to-do instead of what you want-to want-to-do. Then, there’s no limit to what’s possible by taking a first principles approach supported by deep thinking, hard work, writing and reflection.

Where do I work? I studied at the Engineering Science program at the University of Toronto. After doing 📱 at Twitter, 🤖 at Google, and helping build a few services, including Gif Search, at Twitter, I spent a handful of years at Magic Leap building out a digital sharable world enabling cross-reality experiences. After that, I spent a couple of years at Waymo working on autonomous vehicles and building out data science infrastructure for the Planner Eval team. Currently, I’m leading the protocol team at Pocket Network, a Blockchain Protocol. Find out more on my LinkedIn or cv.

What do I do in my spare time? In my spare time, I’m either at the gym experimenting with a new workout 🏋🏽, enjoying the outdoors in some fashion 🥾🌲⛰ , reading or tinkering on something new 📚✍️, or just having fun at an improv class 🃏. Check out my blog and other links or feel free to email me at olshansky.daniel@gmail.com.