# Daniel Dodd

> Engineering @ Avela

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danieldodd

Hands on engineering and product leader. Special love of startups and the challenges and rewards of building in a fast paced environment

## Work Experience
### Engineering Lead @ Avela
Jan 2024 – Present
As Avela's version of a CTO I lead all things engineering making it easy for parents to find, apply for, and enroll their kids in every aspect of their educational journey. Making complex things seem simple and straightforward is no easy task and we’re always looking for talented folks to help us build. Join us!

### Head Of Engineering @ Found
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
At Found I built and lead everything that had to do with engineering including our core application engineering teams, data engineering, data science, platform engineering, IT, and security operations.

### VP Data Platforms @ Numerator
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
At Numerator I headed up everything that had to do with data collection and enrichment - mobile applications, receipt processing, advertising, promotions, web, ecommerce, as well as all of the ML, algorithms, tools, and data pipelines needed to clean, combine, and enrich that data to make it leverageable across the entire suite of SaaS products

### VP Engineering, San Francisco @ Numerator
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Principal Engineer @ Numerator
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Principal Engineer @ InfoScout (now Numerator)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
I started at InfoScout when it was still a wee company of ~40 people and helped grow it through the acquisition by Numerator at which point we were a team of more than 3x that.

Most of my time was focused on building out our receipt processing and data enrichment pipelines and teams

### VP Engineering @ MediaSpike, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
As a founding engineer at MediaSpike I wore a bunch of different hats: everything from hands on coding and architectures to building and managing the engineering team. As with most tiny startups, I also had a bunch of non-engineering responsibilities including driving our project management, operations, and publisher client onboarding for our advertising platform.

### Gameplay Engineer @ Electronic Arts
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | Redwood Shores, CA
My time with EA was spent working on multiple different Sims properties. I worked on 4 different shipped titles spending time on the entire game pipeline


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ddodd7

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Last updated: 2026-04-05