Dan Itsara is a technology executive and engineer with over a decade of leadership delivering large-scale digital transformations across fintech, retail, and e-commerce in Southeast Asia. As Chief Technology Officer at Chubb Life since 2024, he leads modern cloud-native strategies, platform modernization, and risk-aware engineering practices. He previously built Lotus’s fastest-growing omnichannel app in Thailand and Malaysia and led Ascend Group’s 350+ person tech organization, delivering multi-tenant platforms, cost-efficient migrations, and uptime gains that fueled revenue growth. His background spans startups as a co-founder of Glazziq, as well as product leadership at Amazon Video, guided by a defense and space-informed technical backbone from his USAF and JPL experience. He specializes in AWS, Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and Go, and has repeatedly cut deployment times and cloud costs while advancing reliability. Based in Bangkok, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep technical depth to turn ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, M.S., Aerospace Engineering at University of Southern California
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Flight Test Engineering, M.S., Flight Test Engineering at United States Air Force Test Pilot School
MBA, Business, MBA, Business at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Contributions:7 PRs, 66 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
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