Daniel Garcia
Full Stack Software Engineer & Founder of GlowConnect
UC Berkeley 2021 🎓 Cognitive Science 🧠
GlowConnect
The Problem with Tinder & Bumble
You swipe for hours, match, talk for days — then find out you're incompatible. Core values are buried, if shown at all.
GlowConnect's Solution
Core values are color-coded at the top of every profile. Compatibility at a glance.
Demo Profiles
App Screenshots
Solo Founder
Built and launched alone — frontend, backend, infra, design. Zero to production.
AI Moderation
HiveMind API screens images + Google Perspective API filters toxic messages. Safety built in, not bolted on.
Real-Time Chat
Built Socket.io / WebSocket real-time chat
AWS Infrastructure
EC2 + RDS + Redis in production. GitHub Actions CI/CD with automatic rollback on failed health checks.
Swipe Engine
Framer Motion GPU-accelerated physics, 7-dimension compatibility filter, Haversine location matching.
Security
Hard/shadow/soft ban system, Zod validation across all 42 endpoints, Cloudinary image pipeline.
Tech Stack
Projects
Prestige Finance
Finance web app with Redux Toolkit state management and 70%+ Jest test coverage.
Peak Sports
Figma UI/UX design — Instagram for sports highlights. End-to-end prototype.
SafeRx
RAG pipeline achieving 96% recall@5 across FDA drug label datasets.
