Daniel Olfelt
Founder & Investor at When I Work
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Olfelt is a founder, investor, and seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling SaaS products and engineering teams. As the founding CTO and Chief Architect of When I Work, he grew the platform from zero to serving over 50,000 businesses and more than 1,000,000 employees weekly while expanding the engineering team to 50+ and preserving agility through small feature teams. He combines hands-on expertise across AWS, NoSQL, UX, and full-stack development with a practical instinct for process and hiring that turns complex problems into elegant, user-focused solutions. Daniel is passionate about designing products that quietly improve users’ lives and business efficiency—often surfacing value they didn’t know they needed. Based in Minneapolis, he brings deep operational experience in cloud scalability and image-processing workloads from earlier roles, plus a knack for translating technical choices into measurable business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Applied Health Science Chemistry, Bachelors of Science Applied Health Science Chemistry at Wheaton College
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Github Skills (157)
expressjs10
rest-api10
fiber10
android10
nodejs10
textview10
polymer9
golang9
serverless-offline9
serverless-plugin9
authentication9
home-assistant9
php9
listview9
oauth9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dolfelt/color-svg
Mar 2014 - May 2015
A revolutionary way for users to choose color in your application. Now 100% SVG.
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 4 tags in 1 year 1 month
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dolfelt/copyql
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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