Dan Botero
Founder & CEO at Velanir
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Botero is a founder and engineering leader with nine years of experience building AI-driven products and platforms from enterprise to startup scale. Based in San Francisco, he currently leads Velanir, an HR platform designed to manage AI workforces, after founding and scaling prior startups including Kolign and Moffee. His background spans hands-on AI and full-stack engineering roles at IBM (Watson), Salesforce, and Sisu, where he shipped production ML tools, drove Salesforce developer adoption, and led cross-functional teams. Dan combines product sensibility with technical depth—having developed large-scale internal tools that onboarded 10K+ users and even surfaced at Dreamforce—and he has a formal CS master’s plus focused study in cryptography. Known for turning customer shadowing and domain insights into shipped software, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a knack for operationalizing AI in real-world workflows.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Cañaverales International SchoolFull Stack Web Developer, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Developer, Computer Software Engineering at UdacityAssociate's Degree, Information Technology, Associate's Degree, Information Technology at TAFE NSWAssociate's Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Associate's Degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Australian Pacific CollegeBachelor of Engineering (BE), Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Industrial and Product Design at Universidad Jorge Tadeo LozanoMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Pace UniversityCourse, Cryptography, Course, Cryptography at Columbia University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
fetch9
normalizr8
rest8
react-native7
redux7
react7
state-management7
typescript7
javascript6
reactive-programming6
angular6
expo5
network5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DanBotero/recipes
May 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 year 9 months
DanBotero/Python-Source-Code-For-Codecademy
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 3 branches in 15 days
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