I build databases, decision tools, and operational systems where the hard part is knowing what must stay true.
The boundary you are arguing about — the API, the schema, the org chart, the box in the rack — is a rendering choice. The set underneath is what is real. This page is built that way on purpose.
>$1Bexited
gross merchandise value transacted on the ERP platform I co-founded
source: RetailOps · as of 2023
233kactive
all-time downloads across the ankurah crate family — ankurah, ankql, and friends
source: crates.io · as of 2026-08
2.1Mactive
discrete events per simulated 8-hour warehouse shift, run-to-run deterministic
source: client engagement · as of 2026-07
2Mshipped
lines of code audited across 84 repositories for one acquisition diligence
source: client engagement · as of 2025-12
One history — roles, client engagements, open source, research, talks, writing — projected onto whatever surface you need.
17 itemssource: the published dataset
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Daniel Norman
San Diego, CA · daniel@danielnorman.net · github.com/dnorman · linkedin.com/in/danieldnorman
I build databases, decision tools, and operational systems where the hard part is knowing what must stay true.
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Client work is described without naming the client or the end customer.
Every entry here is in the Full history PDF — the same work, typeset in the document's own order.
Download PDFPlain text (ATS)Offline-first reactive database in Rust: one model definition compiles to server, browser (WASM), and mobile; live queries, per-field merge, pluggable storage. 29 crates, ~73k lines, 925 tests.
233k all-time downloads across the ankurah crate family — ankurah, ankql, and friendssource: crates.io · as of 2026-08
Ground-up retail ERP: catalog, inventory, orders, pick-pack-ship, multi-facility routing. >$1B GMV transacted. Successful exit via acquisition, 2023.
>$1B gross merchandise value transacted on the ERP platform I co-foundedsource: RetailOps · as of 2023
Discrete-event simulator validating robotic warehouse designs for a major international automation company. 2.1M events per 8-hour shift, deterministic; kinematic safe-interval path planning; GPU replay visualizer.
2.1M discrete events per simulated 8-hour warehouse shift, run-to-run deterministicsource: client engagement · as of 2026-07
Two-phase LLM pipeline resolving scanned government notices against a 45,000-entity ontology, then extracting fields. The model proposes; deterministic code decides. Production in ten weeks.
One Rust core compiled to web, native mobile, and server for a multi-market service operator — recurring schedules, and a from-scratch route optimizer sequencing 200 stops in under a second. Foundation built solo; the client team carried it to release.
Reverse-engineered a customer-data platform from 84 repositories and 2M lines with no vendor docs; scripted static-analysis pipeline; scored red/yellow-flag report to the acquirer.
2M lines of code audited across 84 repositories for one acquisition diligencesource: client engagement · as of 2025-12
Technical due diligence across a venture portfolio: product architecture, scalability, engineering review, and vetting of physics-based claims.
Spatial personal database and collaborative browser: web pages, notes, and references in conceptual proximity on an infinite canvas.
Distributed-database research: strong causal consistency, coordination-free, peer-to-peer in the browser. Presented at HPTS and Asilomar, 2017.
R&D on distributed hypergraph databases and knowledge representation — “a database for convergent intersubjectivity.”
Custom ERP, storefront, and multi-facility fulfillment enabling $90M/yr gross order volume and 200k sq ft of warehouse.
World-scale media management and transcoding. Last engineer standing of a staff of 100+.
Five minutes at the invitation-only High Performance Transaction Systems workshop. Slides on SlideShare.
Causal consistency taught through out-of-order office memos — then re-run between Earth and Mars.
Six hundred years of information technology, and a seven-tier model of how shared understanding degrades at scale.
551 members, 116 events and counting, monthly for nearly a decade.
I built a Code of Conduct generator in 2017. What would I cut today? The retired artifact, annotated honestly.
Research, talks, writing and releases, at the year each one began.