Daniel Sockwell

Daniel originally planned a career in law before he realized how much he enjoys programming.

Dan earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School and was a practicing attorney with a large law firm in New York City. While there, he unexpectedly ended up writing code for a JavaScript web app that the firm was building for its large banking clients.

After discovering how much he enjoys writing code, Dan made a career change and became a programmer. He has written JavaScript, Rust, and Raku professionally and enjoys exploring many other languages.

As well to being a Board member, Dan serves on the Raku Steering Council and the TPF Legal Committee. He was also a moderator for the 2021 Perl and Raku Conference.