RBC Summer Tech Labs · 2025
The team reduced a nine-hour weekly workflow to 90 minutes—an 83% improvement—and won Most Innovative Solution for the 2025 Innovation Developer cohort.
Daniel Markusson · Toronto
I’m a software developer at RBC and a Computer Science student at U of T. At RBC, I build reusable interface components and previously helped reduce a weekly API-proxy workflow by 83%. Outside work, I run a software creation agency and build projects in machine learning, robotics, and game AI.
83%less time spent on a weekly RBC API-proxy workflow
2×represented Canada at RoboCup Junior in France and Brazil
71%test accuracy for a five-feature fake-news classifier
Selected work
Selected software and engineering work.
An RBC API-proxy dashboard, self-play bots for my family’s card game, and two generations of autonomous soccer robots.
Smear
The site documents our family rules, lets people play online, and uses self-play to compare bot strategies.
Advanced Robotics Club
After winning nationals in 2023, I founded Crestwood's first Advanced Robotics Club. Its first meeting filled two classrooms, and we returned to international competition in 2025.
Research and writing
Machine learning, methodology, and philosophy.
Published research on a five-feature XGBoost model, plus course papers on methodology and philosophy of religion.
2024 · Research Paper
A Minimal Approach to Fake News Detection
A published research paper on a lightweight machine-learning approach to distinguishing fake and real news articles.
View paperPHL235 · Philosophy of Religion
Hume on Violations of the Laws of Nature
An examination of Hume's account of miracles, testimony, and violations of the laws of nature.
View paperRLG211 · Paper 1
On Methodology
A comparison of Bruce Lincoln and Melford Spiro on methodology in the study of religion.
View paper
Beyond the résumé
I’m usually making something.
That might mean a robot, a wooden crossbow, or music on drums and bass. I also play basketball, train MMA, and lift.
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