Daniel Meretsky
Founder & AI Product Strategist
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Meretsky is a seasoned technology executive and founder with over two decades of experience building enterprise and restaurant technology platforms, most recently serving as Director of Technology at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits while running Tools for Truth, a SaaS AI-driven biblical research product. He has repeatedly moved from hands-on engineering to strategic leadership—designing scalable cloud architectures (Firebase, Azure), driving global IoT and retail tech programs at McDonald’s, and delivering measurable cost and efficiency gains through automation and AI. Daniel combines deep domain expertise in POS, PCI, online ordering, and service platforms with strong program delivery skills across Agile and Waterfall environments, often owning roadmaps, vendor negotiations, and compliance. He’s known for turning complex requirements into simple, high-value solutions—examples include an IoT monitoring program projected to save millions and AI service deployments that reduced incident resolution time by 20%. A practical builder at heart (“I love making useful things”), he pairs product instincts and CI/CD discipline with a talent for mentoring teams and earning stakeholder trust. Based in Tampa, he blends entrepreneurial drive with proven global-scale execution across restaurants, retail, and SaaS.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MIS, MIS at Texas Tech University
Stackoverflow
3,436reputation
2.7mreached
108answers
21questions
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Github Skills (200)
json10
nodejs10
complexity10
python10
django10
pythonic10
celery10
uwsgi10
jwt10
cookiecutter10
heroku10
backend10
linux10
electrical-engineering10
automata10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
daniel-butler/fastapi-chat
Sep 2019 - Feb 2024
fastapi implementation of a chatroom
Contributions:14 PRs, 16 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 5 months
pythonchatroomfastapi
daniel-butler/python-tdd-book
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
From Python Test Driven Development Book
Contributions:178 commits, 2 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pythontest-driventestingunittestpython-test
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