Daniel Hamilton is a pragmatic engineering leader and staff-level technologist with 12+ years delivering scalable web platforms and leading distributed teams, now serving as Director of Engineering at Coalition in Austin. He has a track record of growing teams and revenue—moving incubated products to multi-million dollar lines and hiring large remote engineering cohorts—while balancing product velocity with quality. Comfortable across Python, Java, NodeJS and front-end stacks, he pairs hands-on architecture and coding experience with people management and cross-functional collaboration. He has repeatedly led end-to-end platform efforts (from Employer Admin at Indeed to Record Web at MapMyFitness) and scaled teams to 20+ engineers including managers. Known for translating company goals into technical roadmaps, he also focuses on developer enablement, dependency management, and operational reliability. A Purdue Computer Science alumnus, he blends practical engineering depth with an emphasis on mentoring and measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Purdue University
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Daniel Hamilton - Director Of Engineering at Coalition, Inc.