Daniel Kats
Chief Technology Officer at Reffie
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel Kats is a CTO and machine learning researcher with 13 years of experience building ML-driven products that intersect security, HCI, and PropTech. He led and invented BotSight at NortonLifeLock, authored multiple patents and peer-reviewed publications, and now runs the engineering stack at an ML/PropTech startup, Reffie. His background spans productionizing detectors for disinformation, threat discovery, and privacy leaks—combining research rigor with C-suite-facing technical communication. A University of Toronto M.Sc. and B.Sc. alumnus, he has practical experience across startups and large vendors (Yelp, IBM, Symantec/Norton) and a track record of shipping impactful research into product. Outside of work he balances hands-on tinkering—documented on his blog and GitHub—with rock climbing, judo, and elaborate coffee setups, reflecting a hands-on maker ethos that informs his leadership.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, High Distinction, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, High Distinction at University of TorontoOntario Scholar, Ontario Scholar at Northview Heights Secondary School
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
command-line-interface10
sudoku10
linter10
command-line-tool10
supertest10
httpd10
data-science10
http-server10
wsgi-server10
amazon10
command-line10
frontend10
parserator10
python-fire10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
boompig/gerontocracy
May 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
boompig/citation-mgr
Sep 2014 - Aug 2021
Citation Manager written in Node.js
Contributions:70 commits, 12 PRs, 42 pushes in 7 years
citationnode-jsnodejs
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