Daniel Loreto
Founder at Jetify
Oyster Bay, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Loreto is a founder and senior engineering leader with seven years of experience building and scaling teams and systems at Google, Twitter, Airbnb and healthtech startups. He has repeatedly taken products and organizations from zero to large-scale — founding engineering orgs, consolidating 100+ engineer teams, and guiding startups through hyper-growth. At Virta he led everything tech across product, data, ML, infrastructure and infosec as VP of Engineering, and his recent work focuses on predictable developer environments and build tooling at Jetify (devbox). Comfortable toggling between hands-on backend/DevOps contributions and executive strategy, he has deep expertise in indexing, relevance and productionizing structured-data systems from his Google and Julpan roots. An MIT-trained engineer, he blends rigorous research experience with practical shipping instincts and a track record of opening new product channels (e.g., Airbnb Vacation Rentals and Experiences). He also invests as an angel, signaling a continual focus on early-stage product and team formation.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
SB Computer Science and Engineering, SB Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
docker10
build-system10
go10
nix10
dockers10
devops9
go-cobra8
configuration-management8
cobra8
template-engine7
containerization7
templater7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jetify-com/devbox
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:235 reviews, 65 commits, 90 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `devbox` codebase. Their contributions involved moving docker functionality into a separate package, creating and refactoring various packages like `cuecfg` and `nix`, which involved manipulating configuration files and encapsulating nix-related logic. They also implemented a "plan" command that generates a build plan for the environment, reflecting a focus on build and deployment processes, along with significant updates to generate Dockerfiles and other configuration files based on these build plans.
dev-environmentbuildpackvirtualizationdevcontainerdevcontainers
jetify-com/tyson
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
🥊 TypeScript as a Configuration Language. TySON stands for TypeScript Object Notation
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
configconfigurationconfiguration-languagedatajson
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