# Daniel Byrd

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielbyrd

Seasoned full stack software engineer with over 10 years of experience and a passion for learning. I’ve worked across many domains, including application security, developer tooling, and mobile product development. I’ve worked in both startup and established company environments, taking on technical leadership roles and mentoring dozens of junior engineers. I have 50% backend and 50% frontend experience.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Retool
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Tech lead for user authentication to Stripe products. Created a long term plan and executed on it, aligning a dozen engineering teams to a single vision.
• Designed, project managed and implemented new user facing security features, such as Single Sign On (SSO - SAML), 2FA device management and ID verification for account recovery. For SSO, I worked with 20+ users to gather requirements and ensure product fit.
• Contributed to the success of Stripe's broader product engineering projects by providing valuable insights from an application security standpoint, assisting teams in navigating the delicate balance between robust security measures and optimal user experience.

### Traveling the world @ me
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Traveled through 39 countries across 6 continents.

### Senior Software Engineer - Generalist @ PagerDuty
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Played a pivotal role as the 15th engineer at PagerDuty, contributing to the development and release of core products, including an email incident triggering feature.
• Designed and implemented the company's build system for all Scala code.
• Collaborated on transitioning PagerDuty from a monolithic architecture to a scalable microservice architecture, ensuring higher availability for our users.

### Research Engineer @ VisualDNA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | London, United Kingdom
• Utilized Hive and Scalding to develop robust machine learning algorithms capable of processing large-scale datasets.

### Graduate Developer @ Byng Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | London, United Kingdom
• Architected, developed, and supported both externally contracted and company owned web applications using PHP.

### Software Engineering intern @ Ocado
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
•	Designed and developed a system for monitoring real-time usage information of the Ocado website.

### Student Participant in GSOC @ Google
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
•	Planned, proposed and implemented a search engine module for the Zikula website framework (www.zikula.org).


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Oxford
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-m-byrd

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Last updated: 2026-03-22