Hello, I'm Daniel!
This is my personal space. I love computers, building software, and fostering a culture of passion and growth within my team.
I moved to San Francisco from Italy in 2015 to work for an Online Dating startup (my mum is still unclear of what I used to do) and I ended up biting the "Bitcoin bug" when I discovered the Whitepaper. Nowadays, I work for Farcaster with a really amazing group of people.
When I'm not working, I try to travel as much as possible and meet new inspiring people on the road. Some of them I end up doing really cool things with, others remain a great memory.
Work
Talks & Articles
The Agent That Orders My Groceries
A practical essay about delegating a real household workflow to an AI agent.
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Memento: agents that sleep, wake, and follow up
Notes on agents designed for durable, longer-running coordination instead of one-shot replies.
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Building a GPT from scratch: What I learned and why it mattered
A hands-on account of implementing the core pieces behind transformer language models.
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I Built a MTA Subway Display So I'd Stop Checking My Phone
A hardware/software project that turns transit status into ambient information.
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Farcaster is not just for crypto
A perspective on Farcaster as a broader social protocol and product surface.
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Building in Crypto with Linda Xie
BuidlGuidl
Breakpoint 2022: Write Your First Anchor Program: Building a Vesting Schedule
A Solana Breakpoint workshop on building an Anchor vesting program.
Lisbon, Portugal
Using PDAs and SPL Token in Anchor
A technical walkthrough for working with program-derived addresses and SPL tokens in Anchor.
Medium
Consuming liquidity from the 0x API
A DeFi Discussions talk on integrating with the 0x API for liquidity access.
DeFi Discussions
[Week 7] Spring 2020 Blockchain for Developers: DeFi
Blockchain at Berkeley
How SF Python hosted a remote meetup during the times of COVID-19
A community operations note on moving SF Python programming online during COVID-19.
Medium
Powering recommendation models using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis at Coffee Meets Bagel
An AWS Database Blog case study on recommendation infrastructure at Coffee Meets Bagel.
AWS Blog guest post
Daniel Pyrathon - A practical guide to Singular Value Decomposition in Python - PyCon 2018
PyCon 2018
AWS re:Invent 2017: Dating and Data Science: How Coffee Meets Bagel Uses Amazon Elas (DAT323)
Amazon Web Services
Putting Type Hints to Work
JetBrains
Botmetrics: Meet The Makers // Daniel Pyrathon & Ranger Dave
Botmetrics Marketing
The meta API by Daniel Pyrathon
Python Italia
Daniel Pyrathon about Meta API at Django: Under The Hood
Django Under The Hood
Projects
CycleToken
CycleToken is a unique collection of 7 cryptocurrency tokens (ERC721) that I built to raise money for AIDS LifeCycle.
0x Doc
0x Doc was created to serve technically-savvy users such as market-makers, 0x API integrators, and RFQ providers that want experiment, simulate, and trade 0x V3 orders.
Django model meta contributions
Designed, tested, and released Django's Meta API, already in use by many developers in production. Planned the strategy for deprecation and backwards-compatibility: Old API 100% backwards-compatible. My code can be found in this Django Meta API commit
Volunteering
SF Python and PyBay
Since 2015, I've been on the leadership team for PyBay (the annual flaghip conference) and SF Python (the monthly meetup). Aside from lining up talks for SF Python and helping out with PyBay, I've also been helping attendees find jobs and encourage bootcamp students to become first-time speakers.
Techtonica
I've been a volunteer for Techtonica's 2019 cohort. Techtonica provides aspirational Bay Area women and non-binary adults with low incomes a pathway to careers in software engineering, and serves the recruitment needs of tech companies committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. I'm proud to say that 2 of the students that I've been directly mentoring have been chosen for an internship opportunity, and both of them have also given talks at SF Python!