Andrew Daniel is a tech director and people-first engineering leader with 13 years’ experience building and shipping customer-critical platforms across payments, subscriptions and cloud services in the games industry. He blends deep technical fluency from hands-on roles at Unity and IBM with senior delivery accountability at Rocket Science Group, pairing system-design judgement with pragmatic product focus. Known for creating psychological safety and coaching engineers to take ownership, he excels in ambiguous environments where trust and clear communication matter as much as architecture. His background spans game-scaling infrastructure, matchmaking and voice/text services, plus enterprise AI and API platforms—an unusual mix that helps him translate complex technical trade-offs into commercial outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science (Games Technology), Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science (Games Technology) at Nottingham Trent University
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 5 months
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Andrew Daniel - Tech Director at Rocket Science Group