Dan O.

Altana builds a dynamic, intelligent, universal map of the global supply chain based on AI-powered insights into global trade data.

• Led the evolution from prototype to production of a comprehensive map of the global supply chain, capturing physical movements of goods across the planet to drive value.
• Reported directly to the Chief Technical Officer. Doubled the team size from 6 to a peak of 12, significantly enhancing the team's talent by hiring skilled Data Analysts, ML Engineers, and Software Engineers.
• Transitioned manual database updates to a product-driven approach, enhancing data accuracy and accessibility. Oversaw expansion of the data platform from 0.5B edges on the graph to 3B edges, allowing for greater scalability and insight.
• Increased software releases from one per week to multiple releases per week, a 3X+ increase in efficiency. Enhanced data update frequency from quarterly to 5 times per week, providing more real-time insights.
• Developed key features that served as differentiators for Altana, providing unique value to customers. Established a high-confidence testing environment to improve product quality and reliability.
• Conducted cost of business analysis, resulting in a 50% reduction in engineering and operational costs in the past year.
• Served as key member of a self-organized cross-functional team of organizational leaders, meeting weekly to propose impactful solutions, represent interests, and build strategic plans for engineering.

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

• Appointed technical lead on the Privacy & Security team responsible for data access control of a user base of over 10K platform users, overseeing data privacy and consent order compliance.
• Streamlined the data warehouse's interface, creating one unified system for access management and administration without impacting production operations.
• Identified issues with the data warehouse system, engaged experts across domains, and developed a proposed solution that persuaded teams to allocate resources to build the technical solution.
• Led the implementation of Rust programming at Meta, pioneering its first production use and enhancing the company's technical capabilities.

Wayfair's mission is to empower everyone, anywhere to create their ideal home environment. They achieve this by offering a vast selection of home goods across various styles and budgets, along with helpful customer service and innovative shopping tools. They strive to be a one-stop shop for all your home furnishing needs, making the shopping experience as smooth and enjoyable as possible.

• Led early strategic work for various projects and joined other projects as needed to provide critical technical expertise and guidance.
• Assigned as the technical lead to transition data center operations, including 30K servers and 20 core enterprise databases, from on-premises to the cloud within 18 months.
• Managed the involvement of Principal Engineers and Architects across 60 different groups, each with a unique path to the cloud.
• Outsourced and built a custom solution to facilitate the transition of core enterprise databases to the cloud. Avoided potential costs of $25M-$40M (equivalent to $1B of sales) by successfully executing the migration project within the given timeframe.
• Spearheaded the transition from a legacy self-managed infrastructure to cloud-native services such as Spanner, CloudSQL, BigTable, and PubSub. Created a self-service, secure, and scalable data-as-a-service environment spanning public and private clouds.
• Built and lead new team providing technical and architectural leadership during transition from a monolithic application stack to a distributed, service-oriented architecture based on GCP and Kubernetes.

Naviga Global is a software company that develops solutions specifically for the media industry. Their software helps media companies manage content, deliver it to audiences, and generate revenue through advertising. They offer a Content Engagement Platform (CEP) that helps businesses create, enrich, deliver and monetize content. In short, they help media companies operate more efficiently and profitably in a digital age.

• Led the migration of the NewsEdge.com infrastructure to Google Cloud, leveraging ElasticSearch and Kubernetes to modernize the underlying technology.
• Managed the NewsEdge product suite, including the destination website, REST APIs, and customer integrations, ensuring seamless operation and enhanced performance.

Acquire Media, Inc. was a digital media services company that focused on technology-driven news and related data analytics. They provided real-time news management and distribution tools to various clients including those in the news media, financial services and corporate communities. Their technology platform would gather information from a wide range of sources and then distribute curated real-time feeds and alerts to their customers. In December of 2017, Acquire Media was acquired by Naviga Global. In October 2020, Acquire Media was acquired by Moody's.

• Architected scalable, redundant server system for text and video news collection, classification, indexing, and distribution based on Apache, Tomcat, Lucene, and MySQL, effectively guiding a team of 15-20.
• Led the migration from an ad hoc development process to Agile utilizing JIRA software, implementing custom workflows tailored to match release structure.
• Specified sprints, tracked story progress, and oversaw planning, documentation, and execution of QA and production releases.
• Served as the primary technical point of contact for significant revenue customers, managing pre- and post-sales integration work.