Daniel Hicks
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Adobe
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Hicks is a senior software engineering manager with 11+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-agnostic, AI-driven MarTech and product platforms for companies from ad agencies to enterprises like Home Depot and Adobe. He combines hands-on full-stack craftsmanship—front-end, back-end, DevOps, and architecture—with a pragmatic leadership style evidenced by multi-year team building, Agile transformations, and measurable delivery improvements. Daniel excels at turning chaotic requirements into scalable systems, favoring Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm to avoid cloud lock-in and repeatedly choosing pragmatic stacks like NestJS for backend consistency. He has led major rebuilds and introduced engineering metrics (DORA) to improve throughput and reliability, while driving AI orchestration efforts at Monks.Flow. Outside work he brings the same curiosity to side projects and hobbies—playing multiple instruments, tinkering with Rust, and collecting Warhammer lore—which fuels creative problem solving and a culture-first approach to management. Based in Houston, he’s known for tearing open black boxes to understand systems end-to-end and unblocking teams with both mentorship and decisive technical action.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Design and Production, Multimedia Design and Production at Humber College
Github Skills (1)
command-line-tool4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DAYFA1R/overlord
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Command line tool for rapidly moving between project directories and aliasing common development commands.
Contributions:75 commits, 28 PRs, 93 pushes in 7 days
command-line-tool
DAYFA1R/nydus
May 2025 - May 2025
A YAML-powered CLI aliasing tool that lets developers define shortcut commands for common project tasks — like install, build, and run — that can be executed from anywhere on your system.
Contributions:8 releases, 8 PRs, 56 pushes in 18 days
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