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.
See the links in the navigation bar above for more information about my experience.
daniel.e.scherzer@gmail.comI also have a blog. You can see a full index of my posts here. My latest blog post is:
Each release of PHP has a team of release managers responsible for managing the release process. Next month, the other PHP 8.5 release managers and I will begin the process of selecting the release managers for PHP 8.6. I figured it might be helpful to document my experiences so far, to give potential volunteers some extra context. Continue reading...