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DanielRomero

Engineering Director · Team building and mentorship (zero voluntary attrition, consistent promotions) · Large-scale platform rearchitecture and migration leadership (5M+ user systems, sub-100ms latency)

Cerritos, CA, US
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01 — Positioning

Where Daniel is headed.

Daniel progressed from full-stack engineer to Staff/Manager at scale-focused companies (Wurl, GOATGroup), shipping products with millions of users while achieving zero voluntary attrition and consistent promotions. Now deepening expertise in AI-assisted development and agentic systems, positioning for Director-track leadership.

What Daniel brings
  1. 01Team building and mentorship (zero voluntary attrition, consistent promotions)
  2. 02Large-scale platform rearchitecture and migration leadership (5M+ user systems, sub-100ms latency)
  3. 03Cross-functional coordination and technical standards-setting
  4. 04AI-assisted development workflows and agentic coding systems
  5. 05Full-stack depth (React, Node, TypeScript, GraphQL, Rails) with architectural vision
02 — Proof

The receipts.

Numbers first. Every metric below is something Daniel shipped or drove — not a claim, an outcome.

  • Proof 01
    Apollo best practices became standard for front-end and back-end teams
    Led company-wide GraphQL migration establishing patterns adopted across teams
  • Proof 02
    100%
    retention, 2 promotions, company-wide GraphQL adoption
    Managed 6 engineers through ground-up migration with zero voluntary attrition and two promotions
  • Proof 03
    sub-100ms response times, <200ms first paint, full-site load <1s, >90% Lighthouse scores
    Rearchitected goat.com platform serving 5M+ monthly users
  • Proof 04
    60+
    seconds → <2 seconds per schedule day (30x improvement)
    Redesigned ad-fill algorithm and database models at Wurl
03 — Role fit

Operating range.

Where Daniel plugs in fastest — sorted from strongest fit to adjacent. Not a wishlist; a routing map.

  • primary fit
    Engineering Manager / Director
    Senior
  • primary fit
    Staff / Platform Engineer
    Senior
  • secondary fit
    Technical Strategy Lead
    Senior
  • adjacent fit
    AI/ML Systems Engineer
    Mid