Summary
Daniel Kaplan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berkeley with over 19 years of architecture and development experience and 5+ years leading engineering teams. He founded and scaled Sleep Easy Software—hiring 20+ people, orchestrating agile transformations across startups and enterprises, and tripling revenue in under nine months by leveraging user research. At Pivotal he led award-winning engagements that launched a household streaming product and generated $20M ARR, and earlier work produced revenue-generating interoperability libraries in healthcare. A practitioner and coach of Lean/Agile/Scrum/XP, he focuses on improving team efficiency through mentorship, psychological safety, and fit-for-purpose delivery methodologies. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and executive alignment, he has repeatedly translated product strategy into measurable market outcomes. Based on his track record, he blends entrepreneurial drive with deep systems design and change-management skill.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine