I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
If you’re living in a state where you’re eligible to vote in the Democratic primary, and you haven’t quite made up your mind—maybe the candidates seem too close for it to really matter, or maybe you’ve picked a side sort of by default—please take about 20 minutes and watch this presentation by Larry Lessig, Stanford law professor (and, incidentally, such a gifted public speaker that he’s essentially defined an entire presentation style). It’s tremendously powerful, and worth spending the time on, regardless of which side you end up coming down on.