# Daniel Dao

> Software Engineer at Niva

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

I'm a software engineer who enjoys working in diverse and inclusive teams that demonstrate empathy, clear communication, and action. Outside of work I like volunteering, reading, and hiking/running in the woods.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Niva
Jan 2024 – Present
We're on a mission to make it effortless to trust legitimate businesses anywhere in the world. Backed by Google.

If you’d like to join the team, we’re hiring! Find our latest open roles here: https://bit.ly/4bxEQRB

### Senior Software Engineer @ Chime
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
I worked across various products within Chime such as SpotMe, Auto Insurance, and MyPay. 

My work consisted of leading different projects / teams, working in 0->1 products, pushing architectural changes in large microservices, AWS cost optimizations resulting in ~$100k/yr saved, and contributing to notable open-source libraries such as aws-ruby and graphql-ruby.

### Software Engineer @ Chime
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Clover Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
I worked in the Data Platform organization which varied from Provider Data, Reliable Payments / Financial Claims Data, and Product Data. I also mentored two interns from the Code2040 program and was the technical lead for multiple projects.

Notable technologies used: Django, Python, gRPC, kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Flask, and Apache Airflow

### Software Engineer @ Munchery
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
I worked as a full-stack engineer here and briefly interacted with our Ruby on Rails backend. Most of the time I spent here was working with a team to transition our frontend from Angular to React.

Notable technologies used: Ruby on Rails, React/Redux

### Software Engineer @ Civitas Learning
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area
I worked on one of our core product teams called Illume. I worked on our backend API service and internal ETL / data pipeline tool. 

Notable technologies used: AWS Redshift, PostgreSQL, NodeJS, Python

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas Area
I was an undergraduate TA for CS327E Elements of Databases. The work involved grading quizzes, exams, and final projects. Other work consisted of holding office hours, lab hours, and answering emails.

### Software Engineering Intern @ DIRECTV
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Los Angeles, CA
I was an intern on the Authentication Services (AS) team that was focused on managing internal authentication at DTV. My summer consisted of extracting our main authentication endpoint to its own micro-service, writing tests, and scripts to fully deploy and productionize once I left.

Notable technologies used: NodeJS

### Software Developer @ Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
I was a developer in the ITS department and worked with bash, oracle SQL, and HTML/CSS to help generate reports.

### Software Engineer @ rougemark.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Austin, Texas Area
I was an engineer on the backend team working with Django and Python.

Notable technologies used: Django and Python


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielvudao
- Website: http://www.github.com/danielvdao
- Website: http://danielvudao.me

---
Source: https://flows.cv/danieldao
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/danieldao/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01