Summary
Daniel Epstein is a Senior Engineering Manager in New York with 9 years of experience building scalable streaming pipelines, RESTful APIs, and data platforms. He excels at bridging product and engineering—translating customer needs into technical designs and leading teams to deliver production-grade systems across Kafka, Snowflake, Kubernetes, and cloud-native stacks. His background spans hands-on roles from data engineering to staff-level architecture, including delivering a cash-flow–inspired credit scoring pipeline and owning Snowflake data warehouse architecture. A pragmatic technical decision-maker who stays involved in implementation, he’s comfortable leading teams of ~10 engineers while still contributing code and systems design. Outside work he brings a curious, human-centered perspective—evident in a GitHub bio that nods to The Big Lebowski—reflecting a light touch amid serious technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland
English, Spanish