Daniel Valencia
Head Of Engineering at Katapult Labs
Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Valencia is a Head of Engineering with 14+ years building and scaling backend systems and distributed teams across Latin America, currently leading nearshore squads at Katapult Labs. He blends hands-on backend work in Python, Ruby and Rust with product-minded architecture, data-driven features, and operational practices like CI/CD and cloud-native deployment. Daniel has deep experience partnering with U.S. startups remotely, shortening time-to-hire and optimizing delivery cycles while moving from individual contributor to strategic technical leader. His background in recommender systems and large-scale data pipelines informs pragmatic decisions around performance and trade-offs. He’s a mentor and recruiter who cultivates autonomy, ownership, and measurable outcomes across multi-project engagements. Colocated in Colombia, he champions AI-assisted development to boost team productivity and code quality.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Statistics Statistics, Applied Statistics Statistics at Universidad del Valle (CO)
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
activerecord6
postgis6
adapter6
ruby-on-rails6
python1
rails1
exploratory-data-analysis1
postgresql1
exploratory1
ruby1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dafevara/eiformula
Jun 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
dafevara/dafevara
Jul 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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