Summary
Dan Fortner is a Lead Sales Engineer with 13 years of experience helping enterprise SaaS companies win and scale in the Bay Area by bridging technical execution and customer-facing strategy. He excels at turning troubled accounts and departments into reliable, high-performing organizations, often being "air-dropped" into the hardest problems to restore stakeholder confidence and deliver results. Dan pairs deep sales and implementation expertise with a Carnegie Mellon MS in Software Management and hands-on coding experience, enabling him to translate complex technical requirements into pragmatic, repeatable processes. He has led large integrations and programs that drove multimillion-dollar deals and materially increased channel-driven revenue. Known for contagious positive energy, he builds cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, and partners to shorten time-to-value for customers. Outside work he’s driven by a founder’s mindset—one successful exit, major shareholder in a unicorn, and a long-term goal to settle into the next big company while pursuing racing.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Coursework Computer Science, Software Engineering Coursework Computer Science at Monterey Peninsula College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Telecommunications, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Telecommunications at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Telecommunications, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Telecommunications at Rhode Island College
Master of Science (MS) Software Management, Master of Science (MS) Software Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Spanish