Daniel Spiewak

Daniel Spiewak received the 2025 Graduate of the Last Decade awardee from the UWM Alumni Association. The award was presented during the Alumni Awards Evening on February 21, 2025, at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

Daniel began programming in grade school and continues to push the boundaries of software engineering today as a distinguished engineer at NVIDIA. A widely recognized innovator in micro-optimization, cloud services and computer language data structures, Daniel worked as a programmer while earning his UWM degree and subsequently served as senior software engineer for companies such as Rich Relevance and Verizon. After guiding a technological restructuring and market pivot as chief technical officer for SlamData, Daniel joined Walt Disney Co. as principal engineer and worked across the full Disney Streaming stack, where he led the unification of the Disney+ and Hulu platforms. He joined NVIDIA to help drive the evolution of AI infrastructure for the company’s autonomous vehicles program. He’s a frequent speaker and active contributor to and maintainer of numerous open-source projects, most significantly the Typelevel ecosystem in Scala. Daniel returned to UWM in 2024 to present two public lectures and meet with advanced computer science students.