Daniel
Khalili

Promoted into engineering leadership while remaining hands-on technically, balancing high-level planning with active development.

• Primary point of contact between Product, Project Managers, and Engineering leadership across major initiatives, gathering requirements, aligning on business outcomes, and driving implementation under real resource constraints
• Lead team execution across planning, delivery, feedback loops, stakeholder alignment, and technical decision-making for a broader engineering group of roughly 10 engineers
• Manage 4 direct reports through 1:1s, career growth conversations, structured feedback, and thoughtful task assignment
• Assign tasks based on individual strengths and development areas, and provide direct feedback to help engineers grow
• Key voice in roadmap planning, proposing and scoping initiatives for cycle and quarterly planning in close collaboration with Product
• Run sprint ceremonies including standups and technical deep-dives
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and communicate timelines to leadership and dependent stakeholders
• Bring a product mindset to engineering leadership, focused on outcomes and company-wide impact

Led full-lifecycle development of the internal Campaign Management platform, owning end-to-end delivery across distributed backend services, low-latency APIs, and greenfield frontend applications.

• Designed, built, and operated core platform services and internal tools supporting campaign management, with a focus on low-latency APIs, permissions, monitoring, logging, alerts, and reliable service boundaries
• Operated as the team's technical and delivery lead while being evaluated for formal engineering leadership, owning team coordination, mentoring, execution planning, stakeholder communication, and delivery quality across a broader group of roughly 10 engineers
• Built internal engineering automation across GitHub, Jira, release notes, PR metadata, alerts, and team communications, using webhook-driven workflows, clear service contracts, and reliability safeguards to reduce manual coordination and improve delivery visibility
• Gathered and translated business and product requirements into technical solutions, managing priorities across concurrent workstreams while navigating constant context switching
• Ran code reviews, managed CI/CD deployments, and established engineering best practices across the team
• One of the primary mentors on the team, actively supporting engineer growth and knowledge sharing
• Early adopter of AI tooling within the team, integrating tools that significantly accelerated delivery without compromising code quality

Joined Kargo's Workflow team and quickly took ownership of initiatives end-to-end across multiple repositories and tech stacks.

• Built across the full stack including backend services, APIs, and frontend interfaces supporting internal operations and ad-serving workflows
• Learned new technologies and business logic continuously to keep pace with an evolving, multi-platform environment
• Contributed to code reviews and helped raise overall code quality across the team

Built and led the tech department from the ground up for a medical aesthetics e-commerce company, modernizing the platform to a new generation of technology.

• Led the architecture and development of a live streaming and class platform for healthcare training, evolving it from basic video conferencing into a full-featured communication and learning environment using AWS ChimeSDK and FFmpeg
• Hired, managed, mentored, and reviewed a team of 3 engineers while owning product direction, technical architecture, and delivery planning with the CEO
• Worked directly with the CEO to set company direction and shape the product roadmap
• Set engineering priorities, coordinated execution, and made product and technical tradeoff decisions under fast-moving startup constraints

Built and managed RESTful APIs for a real estate mobile startup, collaborating directly with iOS developers.

• Designed and built APIs using Node.js, Firebase, and MongoDB on AWS

Built a technology startup focused on immersive VR and media experiences for capturing and reliving personal memories.

• Co-founded the company and led software/product direction under startup constraints, managing team execution, stakeholder expectations, technical decisions, and rapid delivery across web and immersive platforms
• Served as one of two company leads, making product direction and project management decisions alongside day-to-day engineering and operations
• Managed the software department including hiring, budgeting, and team oversight, while leading architecture and development across web and VR platforms
• Built in-house server infrastructure to connect web applications and led the team into new technology including Unreal Engine, Unity, C++, and Python

Built frontend features and RESTful APIs for legal practice management software.

• Developed with JavaScript, C#, Bootstrap, and MongoDB