Summary
Daniel O'donnell is a Senior Data Engineering Manager based in Portland, Maine, with a decade-plus track record leading distributed, high-availability SaaS teams at companies like The New York Times, dbt Labs, and Apple. He translates product and legal requirements into scalable data platforms and governance—having led a centralized, contract-oriented data mesh and driven DSR compliance work that reduced operational risk and costs. Comfortable across APIs, SDKs, plugins and web apps, he built teams that span multiple time zones and prioritize trust, career development, and predictable delivery through SLOs, on-call practices, and OKRs. Daniel is pragmatic about trade-offs, often surfacing overlooked opportunities via metric-driven analysis, and has repeatedly scaled small teams into reliable engines of execution.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst