Summary
Daniel Ling is a Principal Software Architect based in the New York City area with eight years of focused experience designing and delivering OLTP systems from end to end. He has a long-tenured career at FIS (and its predecessor SunGard), progressing from programmer to principal architect and owning complex transactional architectures in financial services. Daniel blends deep implementation experience with system-level design, routinely translating business requirements into resilient, high-throughput solutions. His RPI computer science background supports a pragmatic engineering style that emphasizes correctness, auditability, and operational simplicity. Known for shepherding projects across the full lifecycle, he pairs hands-on coding with architectural leadership and mentoring. A detail that sets him apart is his sustained commitment to a single domain and employer, giving him unusually deep institutional and domain knowledge in OLTP for finance.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. of Science Computer Science, B.A. of Science Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute