Welcome to Daniel Scherzer's personal website. I am a software engineer with experience working in PHP, JavaScript, Python, C, and other languages.
I completed my undergraduate education at Tufts University, double majoring in Computer Science and Political Science and graduating magna cum laude in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science degree. As part of my work in Computer Science, I chose to write an honors thesis in my senior year, see here for details. I continued at Tufts for graduate school, graduating in 2025 with a Master of Science in Computer Science degree.
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daniel.e.scherzer@gmail.comI also have a blog. You can see a full index of my posts here. My latest blog post is:
As part of preparing for my Longhorn PHP talk about what is new in PHP 8.5, I have been going through various PHP tools and checking to what extent they support the new features. When the support is lacking, I have sometimes tried to add it myself; this led me to making my first patch in Rust. Continue reading...