Summary
Daniel Navarro is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building highly scalable security and identity products at Okta, where he helped design and launch ThreatInsight to block millions of malicious authentication requests per day. He specializes in backend systems, adaptive and risk-based authentication, and has deep hands-on experience with Java, Spring, distributed streaming, and search technologies to keep enterprise sign-on secure and resilient. A mentor and ERG committee member, he pairs technical leadership with people-focused practices to onboard and grow new engineers. Outside work he pursues endurance sports—rock climbing, skiing, and mountain hiking—which mirrors his preference for tackling hard, long-running engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Physics, 3.877, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Physics, 3.877 at Bowdoin College