Daniel Lo
Co-Founder, CTO at Legal.io
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Lo is a seasoned software leader and CTO with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable web platforms and data-driven marketplaces from the infrastructure up. As Co-Founder and CTO of Legal.io he blends product-driven technical strategy with practical engineering—applying lessons from startups like Ampush and SlideShare to optimize systems, databases, and growth-stage architecture. He excels at enabling high-performance teams, reducing friction, and stepping in to ensure quality while fostering a culture of independence and accountability. His background as a MySQL DBA and principal engineer means he routinely tackles performance, replication, and ops challenges that others hand off. Daniel is comfortable shifting between coding, architecture, and hiring processes, and has a long track record of taking MVPs to sustainable, scalable products. Based in Fremont, CA, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a preference for pragmatic, measurable engineering improvements.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at San Francisco State University
Github Skills (155)
rubocop10
mvc10
background-worker10
aasm10
ruby10
state-machine10
ruby-client10
linter10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
relay10
client-library10
static-analysis10
job-scheduler10
formatter10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
danlo/rails
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
lawgives/your_membership
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
apixmlrubysdksdk-ruby
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