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Daniel Mora

New York,NY

Summary

An engineering leader with experience at startup, pre IPO, and enterprise companies, interested helping scale an organization to the next level, with a thoughtful approach to scaling teams, growing individuals, and introducing process, in a way that meets the needs of the mission and the team.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Engineering

YourOwnWallet
06.2023 - Current
  • Independently designed, built, and launched full stack, multi-platform application that enabled individuals to create a secure, shareable, financial profile
  • Researched, selected, and onboarded vendors and contractors to support rapid development and delivery of an MVP
  • Met with investors and prospective partners to refine the product, roadmap, and prioritization
  • Organized and led weekly company demos and updates on technical and business initiatives

Senior Director of Engineering

Ribbon Health
05.2022 - 05.2023
  • Managed and mentored engineers across three separate initiatives supporting enterprise data management, data processing and cost management and observability
  • Drove multiple initiatives across functions to introduce new processes for routing and resolving customer escalations and high severity incidents to improve customer retention
  • Co-led a team of engineers and data scientists to fully overhaul the core data pipeline to reduce costs by ~50% and accelerate the development of new data fields by ~90%

Engineering Manager

Plaid
01.2020 - 04.2022
  • Led a major initiative to transition the company strategy from working independently from banks to working collaboratively with banks to maintain and improve data access
  • Expanded data access for Plaid with near zero marginal cost by leveraging the Plaid Exchange API onboarding hundred's of data providers
  • Managed and mentored multiple teams supporting historic data collection efforts and API based data collection

Senior Engineering Manager

WeWork
04.2018 - 11.2019

Go, Ruby, Typescript, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, CirlceCI

  • Established the Test Infrastructure team (grew from 2-6) supporting ~800 engineers at WeWork with tools to improve test quality and reliability and speed up test authorship
  • Designed and developed a Go CLI to dynamically create isolated test environments using Helm and Kubernetes in an AWS environment
  • Developed and delivered training and interactive labs on WeWork API testing tools to audiences in Tel-Aviv and New York to improve testing practices across WeWork

Team Lead

Bloomberg L.P.
05.2014 - 04.2018

C, C++, Python

  • Established a new Engineering Productivity team from 0-15 with a mixture of FTE and contractors to support an engineering team of ~200 by reducing technical debt from legacy technologies and establishing SDLC best practices across the organization
  • Developed training on unit testing, mocking, and dependency breaking, and delivered it to ~200 developers across Bloomberg New York and London to improve testing practices across the department
  • Founded the Automated Testing Guild at Bloomberg and expanded developer engagement in testing and other best practices from ~100 to ~1000 engineers over the course of three years with monthly meetups and contributions to the companies internal tech blog

Software Development Engineer

Microsoft Corp
01.2013 - 05.2014

PowerShell, C++, TypeScript

  • Developed filtering code with Visual Analytics for PowerView across Web and mobile platforms in multiple languages
  • Drove adoption of design patterns and improved testing across a department of ~200 engineers via practical examples, code reviews, and presentations

Teacher

Cleveland High School
09.2012 - 01.2013
  • Prepared and delivered daily lessons, readings, and evaluation material, for Introduction to Computer Science with the Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program
  • Worked with twenty-eight students of various levels of technical competency to learn fundamental concepts of computer science such as abstraction, functions, loops, and message passing
  • Met with parents to discuss individual student performance and the value of computer literacy

Software Development Engineer In Test

Microsoft Corp
06.2010 - 01.2013

PowerShell, C++, TypeScript

  • Improved deployment and upgrade reliability by 2X unblocking testing of all features
  • Presented shared test code and tools to the test team and provided documentation on its use
  • Facilitated the creation and initial roll-out of tools to enable automated testing of deployment scenarios across the SharePoint Online organization

Software Developer

Compendia Bioscience
05.2009 - 05.2010

Java

  • Maintained and extended a subscription web application serving more than 10,000 academic and commercial customers, that enables cancer and drug discovery researchers to visualize connections among genes, diseases, patient populations, and possible drug therapies

Software Developer

Menlo Innovations LLC
05.2008 - 08.2008

Java

  • Worked directly with clients, business analysts, and quality assurance teams in a user-centered design process to develop several software applications with weekly sprints, weekly client demos, pair programming, and test driven development

Line Company Operator

United States Marine Corps
09.2006 - 05.2007
  • Led four Marines in performing daily maintenance tasks, upkeep, and tracking of highly valuable and sensitive military communications and electronics equipment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II while deployed with Alpha Company 1st Battalion 24th Marine Regiment
  • Supported military census operations and joint military operations with local Iraqi forces which lead to the transfer of control of the city of Fallujah, from U.S. Military forces to local Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police in 2007
  • Developed and delivered training on advanced operations of military communication equipment to non-technical members of an infantry company
  • Coordinated efforts to maintain and procure resources for Marine welfare while deployed, such as internet, phone access, and batteries for personal electronics

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
2010

Timeline

Head of Engineering

YourOwnWallet
06.2023 - Current

Senior Director of Engineering

Ribbon Health
05.2022 - 05.2023

Engineering Manager

Plaid
01.2020 - 04.2022

Senior Engineering Manager

WeWork
04.2018 - 11.2019

Team Lead

Bloomberg L.P.
05.2014 - 04.2018

Software Development Engineer

Microsoft Corp
01.2013 - 05.2014

Teacher

Cleveland High School
09.2012 - 01.2013

Software Development Engineer In Test

Microsoft Corp
06.2010 - 01.2013

Software Developer

Compendia Bioscience
05.2009 - 05.2010

Software Developer

Menlo Innovations LLC
05.2008 - 08.2008

Line Company Operator

United States Marine Corps
09.2006 - 05.2007

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Daniel Mora