Daniel Beck

Advised Higher Education directors and 19 engineering team leads supporting approximately 200 engineers, using DORA and SPACE metrics to identify and drive department-wide engineering improvements.

• Drove AI-assisted creation of developer documentation across 100+ repositories, reducing cycle time for teams working in cross-team-owned repositories substantially.
• Contributed to department-wide

Led a transformation-oriented engineering team delivering a greenfield sales enablement initiative, including transforming the company’s flagship Connect product from a closed platform into one that could be safely sampled by unauthenticated users. Partnered closely with Product and Design to shape and refine the product experience.

• Active in cross-department task forces focused on improving ag

Progressed from managing a single team to helping lead the engineering organization through a period of explosive growth, with responsibility for developer experience, technical quality, and engineering practices. Led the teams responsible for VidMob’s creative production web product, iOS application, and in-house design system.

• Led front-end engineering in a matrix-management model across up t

Player/coach team lead coordinating front- and back-end development across multiple software products.

• Built a feature-flag system that remains in use across the product line.
• Improved previously undocumented codebase architecture and underlying business-rule documentation.
• Founded VidMob’s in-house design system in partnership with the Design team.

I started Brightmatter as a solo venture to build a new type of web browser, focused on extracting and aggregating relevant data from web pages and discarding the rest. It used a combination of (pre-LLM) machine learning, crowdsourced data, and heuristics borrowed from the web-scraping world to identify which parts of a page are most likely to be relevant; and then allows the user to decide how

Product designer and lead front-end developer at inthetelling.com, responsible for, well, all the visible parts.

When I joined ITT (now rebranded Narrasys), they had a proof-of-concept web application that could display transcripts and some supporting content alongside a video timeline, backed by a largely manual data-entry process. I led a full redesign of the product into a platform that all

The majority of this work was in one way or another related to distance learning in the higher education space. Clients you'd recognize include McGraw-Hill, Pearson, PH School, Riverside Publishing, InformIT, ANGEL Learning, and Blackboard.

Pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Arts, focusing on creative and technological exploration.

Earned a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema-Television Production, developing a strong foundation in media production.