Daniel Stephens
Founder & CEO at Optimal Property Management
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Stephens is a founder and CEO with 12+ years of experience bringing data science and ML into organizations from startups to Google, specializing in introducing analytics where it didn’t exist and building the infrastructure, culture, and tooling to make it sustainable. He has launched and led AI-for-Web3 ventures (Deep3 Labs, Bird.Money) that put on‑chain ML into production—shipping multiple dApps and a DeFi credit-scoring product—and grown codebases and IP with SEC‑compliant token work and patents. Daniel pairs hands‑on engineering (back-end contributions to projects like Unknown Horizons) with strategic product and go‑to‑market execution, translating technical capabilities into revenue and operational improvements. He’s equally practiced in people systems—designing feedback and career frameworks that drive performance—and in applied analytics for real estate and biotech, where predictive models delivered tangible asset and efficiency gains. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he combines econometrics-rooted rigor from roles at Travelers and Google with entrepreneurial grit to democratize data science for businesses of all sizes.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science B.S. & Bachelor of Arts B.A. Economics & English Literature, Bachelor of Science B.S. & Bachelor of Arts B.A. Economics & English Literature at Quinnipiac University
Github Skills (9)
microstrategy10
simulations10
simulation10
gameplay10
python10
videogames10
test-automation9
algorithm9
algorithms9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons
Dec 2013 - Nov 2014
Unknown Horizons official code repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the game, focusing on settlement range mechanics within the "Unknown Horizons" game. Their work involved modifying existing functions to correctly handle building removal and settlement size adjustments. Furthermore, the user added a test to verify the settlement size decrease functionality. The user also implemented user confirmation of building deletion when reducing settlement size.
pythongameunknownsimulationstrategy
DanielStephens/ktest
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
A clojure library for better unit testing of kafka topologies
Contributions:1 review, 33 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 1 month
test-datatestingunitclojure-librarytopologies
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