Daniel Thagard

dan@thagard.net | +1-561-374-2569 | Linkedin | Github | Resume

I build great teams, products, and infrastructure. AMA

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Recent Projects

Engineering Organization at Corellium

• Implemented requisite development processes and worked with key stakeholders to pass a SOC2 audit.
• Scaled the engineering team to over 35 engineers across disciplines: frontend, middleware, QA, infrastructure, Android, iOS, and hardware modeling.
• Organized application development into cross-disciplinary squads aligned with business lines and adopted a Scrum framework, reducing cycle time from over a month to under 14 days.
• Oversaw the development and implementation of numerous engineering enhancements including feature flags, test automation, and semantic versioning.
• Worked with Product teams to organize delivery of critical features including defining requirements gathering, development, testing, and UAT.
• Initiated team-building and knowledge-sharing events, including an annual company hackathon, gaming competitions, and monthly company-wide demos of new features and enhancements.

Engineering Organization at Immertec

• Implemented foundational processes for the software development life cycle (SDLC) to pass a SOC2 audit.
• Authored and organized internal documentation for engineering, covering operations, onboarding, product guides, and how-tos.
• Introduced and trained the team on Kanban methodology, tracking performance metrics across multiple product lines including web, mobile, VR, and custom systems in AWS and GCP.
• Created a health reporting dashboard for weekly executive leadership meetings to guide decision-making.
• Established SOC2-compliant source control processes on GitLab, consolidating from GitHub and Bitbucket to reduce costs and developer friction.
• Implemented behavior-driven development (BDD) using CucumberStudio and BrowserStack, reducing regressions and improving product quality and development speed.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines with GitLab Runners on Kubernetes to automate deployment of development, staging, and production applications using Terraform.
• Led hiring efforts, tripling the engineering team size and adding platform, product, and QA teams.
• Introduced continuous improvement processes such as biweekly 1:1s, monthly retrospectives, and improvement katas.

Site Reliability Organization at Magic Leap

• Founded a global organization of 70 engineers focusing on technology infrastructure and developer productivity.
• Established competencies in end-user support, infrastructure engineering, observability, chaos engineering, and application delivery.
• Introduced Kanban project management methodologies, reducing average lead times from 45 days to 14 days.
• Automated the deployment of physical and virtual infrastructure, eliminating many bespoke manual processes.

Mixed Reality Architecture

• Architected and led the development of an application to visualize cloud infrastructure using Spatial Computing (AR/MR) with the Magic Leap One.
• Utilized Unity, C#, Terraform, Golang, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Functions to dynamically pull infrastructure from Terraform state and display it as a directed graph.
• Leveraged image keys to synchronize location data and enable real-time shared experiences with other users.

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Employment

Corellium (Delray Beach, FL)

• Vice President, Engineering - 2022/06-Present

Namely (New York City, NY)

• Staff Software Engineer, Platform - 2021/11-2022/06

Blackstone (New York City, NY)

• Vice President, Platform Engineering - 2021/04-2021/11

Immertec (Tampa, FL)

• Vice President, Engineering - 2020/09-2021/04

Magic Leap (Dania Beach/Plantation, FL)

• Senior Director, Site Reliability & Core Engineering - 2019/10-2020/09
• Director, Site Reliability & Core Engineering - 2019/01-2019/10
• Senior Manager, Site Reliability - 2018/02-2019/01
• Manager, Site Reliability - 2017/03-2018/02
• Senior Site Reliability Engineer - 2016/07-2017/03

Citrix (Coconut Creek, FL)

• DevOps Engineer - 2015/06-2016/07

QQ Solutions, Inc (Deerfield Beach, FL)

• DevOps Team Lead - 2014/06-2015/06
• Software Engineer - 2014/01-2014/06

EPIS, LLC (Stuart, FL)

• Senior Software Developer - 2011/09-2013/12

BenTek (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)

• Chief Information Officer - 2010/09-2011/09
• Information Technology Director - 2007/03-2010/09
• Information Technology Manager - 2006/06-2007/03

Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)

• Online Programs & Technology Training Manager - 2004/08-2006/06
• Systems Administrator - 2001/03-2004/08

Education

Degrees

• University of Florida, Masters of Business Administration
• Barry University, BS, Information Technology
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude, 3.975 GPA

Certifications

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Jan 2024 (001610775)
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, Nov 2016 (AWS-ASOA-5456)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Aug 2016 (AWS-ASA-19742)
• CCNA, July 2004 (CSC010817750)
• MCSA, Mar 2006 (3594126)
• CompTia A+, Feb 2000 (E75DTT0530)

Course Work

• Kanban System Design (KMP I)
• PMP Certification Training
• Kubernetes Certified Administrator

Awards

• Super Leaper (December 2017, Magic Leap)
  • Nominated by colleagues for employee award by representing the company value of “together with love”.

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Technologies

Languages/Scripting

• Golang, C#, Bash/Zsh, Python, Ruby, RegEx, Javascript, Node.js, HTML, CSS, SQL

Keywords

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