Summary
Daniel Pino is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of hands-on experience building products at Microsoft, progressing from intern roles to senior engineering positions. He has deep institutional knowledge of Microsoft platforms and teams, having held multiple consecutive engineering roles there since 2014 and shipping across client and backend domains. Daniel pairs practical engineering with a designer’s sensibility from earlier web design and freelance work, enabling thoughtful UX-aware implementations. His background includes iOS internship experience at Yelp and hardware-adjacent exposure at AMD, reflecting versatility across mobile, web, and systems-level contexts. Known for steady internal career progression and mentorship, he brings institutional memory and a pragmatic approach to delivering reliable software at scale. Outside of work he began building and repairing computers as a teen, a detail that hints at long-standing curiosity about how things are built and maintained.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Paramount High School
English, Spanish