# daniel sokol

> Engineer. Problem Solver. Painter. Runner.

Location: San Diego, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielsokol

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ OceanPads
Jan 2023 – Present | San Diego, California, United States
Mission: Deliver the best place to find an apartment or condo to rent or buy in Miami.
+ Developed a compelling frontend platform from a Figma design using javacript and React that communicated with the backend system via APIs
+ Constructed RESTful APIs complete with extensive unit and integration testing using python and Django in a backend engineer capacity

### Software Engineer @ Heyday
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Diego, California, United States
Mission: Pioneer a marketplace-first approach to building the next-generation consumer products company
+ Hit the ground running at the ambitious startup, HeyDay, as the second engineer where I:
+ Architected scalable, configurable systems to ingest data through 3rd party APIs and store the results in AWS S3 for consumption
+ Created RESTful APIs in python using frameworks like FastAPI to produce clean, usable, intuitive backend connections
+ Leveraged AWS Lambda to develop robust pipelines that ingested data from various sources including Google Drive

### Software Engineer @ iCardio.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Mission: Leverage artificial intelligence to analyze echocardiograms 
+ Jumped into iCardio.ai in September 2019 as the third member of a small multidisciplinary team where my work included:
+ Training, optimizing, and deploying machine learning (ML) models through AWS EC2 and Sagemaker instances
+ Constructing modular, maintainable data pipelines in python capable of analyzing echocardiograms by incorporating the ML models
+ Developing web applications using Django whereby users can upload raw files and receive a cardiologist-equivalent report generated by our algorithms

### Software Engineer + Project Management @ Intelsat
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Mission: Deliver connectivity solutions to our many customers
+ Joined Intelsat in June 2016 in the Asset Management team where my responsibilities included:
+ Leveraging software tools like Python to analyze technical and behavioral data from our 10000+ customers and inform business decisions
+ Build usable tools for our technicians and engineers that were used to onboard new customers and troubleshoot existing issues
+ Organizing projects that involved coordination between different groups and customers


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Software Engineering
University of Maryland
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering
University of Maryland
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-sokol-b69b0a10b
- Website: https://danielbsokol.engineer

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Last updated: 2026-03-23