Daniel Hughes-walt
Senior Software Engineer at Haus
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Hughes-walt is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a specialty in distributed systems, DevOps, and data engineering, blending 15+ years of cross-industry experience with advanced degrees in computer science and business. He has driven product and measurement engineering at top-tier companies including Netflix and Google, and now leads engineering work at Haus after progressing internally from software engineer to senior role. Daniel pairs strong technical delivery with product-facing analytics experience—bringing data science-informed design to infrastructure and platform decisions. His background in marketing and media analytics at Nielsen and Anheuser-Busch InBev gives him uncommon fluency translating business metrics into scalable technical solutions. He holds an MS in Computer Science from NYU Tandon and an MBA from Purdue, a combination that helps him balance technical tradeoffs with strategic priorities. Outside core engineering, he surfaces his work on GitHub under the handle dan-haus, reflecting a pragmatic, product-centric open-source interest.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringMaster of Business Administration - MBA Marketing & Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA Marketing & Finance at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Recording Industry Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA Recording Industry Studies at Butler University
Github Skills (13)
golang10
batch10
sql10
java10
streaming10
data-processing9
beam9
python9
streaming-data9
big-data9
apache8
apache-beam8
xv62
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gcivil-nyu-org/team-2-inperson
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 62 reviews, 92 commits in 2 months
waltage/nyu-swe-shortlist
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:88 pushes, 24 branches in 1 month
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