Daniel Willis-Brown — senior engineer who leads
Product sense, production habits, AI-assisted every day. I take a business problem to something running in production, with AI drafting the code, tests and docs and me reviewing every line. Head of Engineering, Engineering Manager or Senior / Product Engineer. Available starting Oct 2026 for full-time roles, as an IC or engineering manager; open to contracts.
Most recent (client names withheld):
- Engineering Lead, cybersecurity platform (2025–26, 7-month contract) — promoted to lead in month one, built the threat-detection pipeline from scratch
- Lead Software Engineer, SaaS platform (2026, 3-month contract) — platform and engineering operations: observability, CI/CD, infrastructure; managed up to 3 engineers
- MileIQ (acquired by Bending Spoons) — Engineering Manager, growth and billing, team of 8, B2B product grew double digits, ~500K-account billing migration
- DataStax (acquired by IBM) — Senior Engineer, event-driven architecture with Apache Pulsar and Salesforce, new dashboard UI from scratch
- Walmart Labs — Senior Engineer (contract), cart and checkout, micro frontends, COVID pickup-scheduling UI
Built this year (about 600 merged pull requests, AI-assisted, every change reviewed):
- tatame0 — my gym management SaaS: web app, API, three iOS apps, Android in progress, Stripe subscriptions and Connect
- Suas Consultas — my telepsychology platform for Brazil: TypeScript backend, SwiftUI iOS and Kotlin Android apps, Stripe Connect, in-app video
- Côté Caçuá — client project: multi-tenant menu API, iOS app, trilingual site
What I ship: Observability · Progressive delivery · Feature flags · Product-led growth · Seven signups, zero second visits
Contact: [email protected] · X (@desmolhar) · LinkedIn · GitHub