Summary
Daniel Okey-Okoro is a software engineer and site reliability practitioner with eight years of experience building and launching production services, currently working on Google Cloud and previously on YouTube’s Main App Core team. He pairs backend expertise in Python, cloud-native architectures, and infrastructure automation with a pragmatic focus on readable code, clear documentation, and operational reliability. Daniel has driven critical microservice work—introducing queues, improving API compatibility, and standing up developer tooling for 200+ engineers—while shipping full-stack products and payment integrations at smaller companies. An investor and hands-on engineer, he brings an unusual blend of product-first thinking and deep implementation skills, from implementing a PostgreSQL linked list for track reordering to shaping JSON-based DSL adoption.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.Eng. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.Eng. Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Covenant University