Benvenuto,
I am Dan Z

Nice to meet you, and welcome to my site. Here’s the short version of who I am and what I think about.

I studied theoretical physics and mathematics at LUC, am now working on a problem in geometric measure theory, and spent a decade writing software, most recently on the Triton ML compiler team at Meta.

I love to think deeply and philosophically about all manner of problems, but, in particular, I’m drawn to foundational questions in physics. For example, what is measurement and how should we understand spacetime? I like problems where physical intuition and precise formalisms have to work together, and where the point isn’t only to calculate but to understand what the calculation is really saying.

This site collects my academic work, engineering background, open source projects, and CV. The source for the site itself is here.