Summary
Daniel Parreira is a seasoned software engineer and infrastructure leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, now focused on cloud infrastructure at Netflix. He has a track record of founding and growing infrastructure teams (scaling one from 3 to 12 engineers) and operating platforms that host transactional APIs and game server deployments at production scale. His work spans ML/feature pipelines, model serving, CDC ingestion, and distributed load testing across companies like Square, AWS, and Fortis Games, blending deep systems design with operational rigor. Daniel regularly mentors engineers and has led cross-functional teams of 20+ engineers while shipping broad portfolios of services and front-end products. Based in San Francisco with an MSc in Computer Science, he also maintains open-source projects—aptly summarized as “a kid with a toolbox”—reflecting a pragmatic, build-first approach to solving complex infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science at York University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems at PUC Minas
English, Portuguese, Spanish