Dan Salvato is perhaps most renown as the writer, coder, and composer for the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!, and as the lead designer and namesake of the game development studio Team Salvato.

Prior to his work with Team Salvato, Dan also worked on the Super Smash Bros. mods Project M and 20XX, as well as the Twitch enhancement Franker Face Z. In addition, he was formerly a competitive Smash player, maining Link in both Project M and Melee before retiring in 2015.