Daniel Simon is a venture-backed founder and CEO with a decade of hands-on experience building fintech products and leading engineering teams, currently scaling Coast after co-founding Bread as CTO/COO. A lifelong technologist and former architect in quantitative finance, he blends deep engineering chops with product and operational rigor honed at firms from Lab49 to UBP and EMC. He pairs technical leadership with uncommon legal and business perspective—holding a JD and an MBA from Yale—enabling pragmatic, compliant solutions in regulated financial services. Based in the New York City area, he thrives at the intersection of product, architecture, and go-to-market execution, often rolling up his sleeves to ship code and define systems himself.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Yale School of Management
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Juris Doctor (J.D.) at Yale Law School
Reed College
Bachelor's Degree, International Relations, Bachelor's Degree, International Relations at Boston University
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