Daniel Wayhs is an engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently leading teams at Qualified from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He has a strong track record scaling complex back-end systems and product delivery, having owned search infrastructure at Globo.com for millions of users and led mission-critical service extraction and product engineering teams at Toptal. Daniel combines architecture and full-stack chops—designing industry 4.0 platforms with real-time digital twins and data pipelines—with people leadership, mentoring teams of 11–13 senior engineers to improve accountability and delivery. He excels at orchestrating multi-team projects, aligning stakeholders, and introducing processes that turn complex requirements into timely releases. Notably, his career blends startup grit (co-founding an early software company) with enterprise-scale impact, reflecting both technical depth and pragmatic delivery focus. He holds a Computer Science background from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Evangélico Augusto Pestana.
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Contributions:36 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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