Summary
Daniel Marashlian is a founder, technologist, serial entrepreneur, and investor with 12 years of experience, currently Co-Founder and CTO of Drata in San Diego. He has built and led multiple startups—Portfolium, Pelotonics, Plixi, RapidEngage—driving product and platform engineering through acquisitions and integrations, including Portfolium’s acquisition by Instructure. At Drata, he leads efforts to automate continuous compliance across SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, ISO27001, GDPR, and CCPA, helping companies build trust at scale. His background spans full-stack development, backend systems, APIs, and scalable infrastructure, with hands-on leadership from hardware to cloud. He served on the Technical Advisory Board at National University and holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and an M.Ed. in Leadership from Northern Arizona University. Based in San Diego, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a security-minded, customer-focused approach to delivering compliant software at scale.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Master of Education (M.Ed.), Leadership, Master of Education (M.Ed.), Leadership at Northern Arizona University