Lead Engineer · QuassLabs
I'M DALLAN.
Stanford PhD in CS. Co-founded Junglee (acquired by Amazon) and FlipDog (acquired by Monster). Decades building systems that extract meaning from messy data — from early internet search to modern AI pipelines.
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Stanford PhD Serial founder Genealogy pioneer
Stanford PhD (1997). Former CTO of FamilySearch. Co-founded Junglee (Amazon, ~$250M), WhizBang! Labs / FlipDog (Monster), WeRelate.org, and RootsFinder (Findmypast). 40+ academic papers on data extraction, web search, and ML. Now building AI systems and data pipelines at QuassLabs.
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Orem, UT · GMT-6/7
Skills
- Web Data Extraction
- Search Engine Technology
- Machine Learning
- Systems Architecture
- AI Tooling
- Academic Research
Recent Projects
→- AI Selectors Web Data Extraction2024–∞
- Recur Scan Financial Automation2024–∞
- RootsFinder Founder · Acquired by Findmypast2014–2019
- GenGophers Founder · Genealogy Search Engine2015
- WeRelate Founder & Creator2006
- FamilySearch Chief Technology Officer2003–2005
- FlipDog / WhizBang! Labs Co-Founder · Acquired by Monster1999–2001
- Junglee Co-Founder · Acquired by Amazon ($250M)1996–1997
Stack
Python
TypeScript
Node.js
React
AWS
Claude
Git
Databases
Scraping