Daniel Lafeir (he/him)

Leading three teams and one manager building systems in the Order domain: search of order data, asynchronous order workflows, payment capabilities, and analytical data products.

• Own headcount planning and hiring decisions across 3 teams, manage contractor staffing, and lead the annual compensation review cycle for a 22-person organization.
• Restructured 3 teams through targeted hiring, performance management, and internal promotions to improve delivery flow, strengthen engineering discipline, and reduce production incidents.
• Built and executed a release strategy with Product to deliver net-new Order software starting with ~6 orders/day for select customers to create a faster feedback loop and surface unknown unknowns.
• Unlocked delivery capacity from partner SAP teams, initially claiming no bandwidth, by establishing bi-weekly prioritization sessions that balanced new Order software with a multi-year SAP upgrade.
• Delivered 4 Order Data Products for multiple analytical use cases, including research on frequency of orders with damaged products and inconsistent application of customer order settings across systems.
• Led cross-team working sessions with EMs and Product managers using domain-driven design to align teams on ownership boundaries and reduce delivery friction.

Strategic problem-solving role embedded across engineering teams by the senior director of engineering, combining hands-on technical execution with cross-team influence to unblock delivery and raise the engineering bar org-wide.

• Led strategic initiative to resolve critical legacy database performance issues by implementing a data retention policy that removed 500M+ records and stopped weekly production incidents.
• Mentored a senior iOS engineer into the technical lead role on a mobile team, guiding them to move business logic from the mobile app into a BFF to enable faster changes and safer rollbacks.
• Reduced product delivery timeline for an inventory allocation HTTP API from 4 months to 1 month by partnering with Product and EM to apply lean engineering principles.
• Developed a CLI tool for capturing capitalizable engineering time, improving financial reporting accuracy and reducing weekly timecard effort for ~50 engineers.
• Evaluated and selected Datadog On-Call by partnering with Datadog product leadership, then built onboarding materials with an engineering director to roll out on-call paging across the org.

Served in director of engineering, technical account principal, and technical lead capacities across clients, consistently operating at organizational scope.

• Led delivery of a Solr-based search platform for specific legal subdomains, like case-law, and introduced commit-level search quality measurement (DCG) as an engineering standard to protect relevance at every deploy.
• Advised VP of Engineering and Directors on rolling out engineering standards across the org and identified opportunities like a ML solution to make customer data more usable for sellers.
• Standardized the performance review process for ~55 engineers to solve feedback loop problems for consultants distributed across a large client on many different teams.
• Defined and delivered a platform engineering strategy, including a CLI tool, API-first tooling, Kubernetes, and starter-kits, that reduced a greenfield project's time-to-production from 4 weeks to 2-3 days.

Rotated between technical lead, engineering manager, and senior IC roles.

• Led a development team of 7 engineers to deliver Manheim Express in 6 months, generating ~$500,000 in revenue and unlocking a new channel for the client's customers.
• Presented architectural recommendations to C-level banking executives to decompose a legacy monolithic deployment tool and simplify opaque, error-prone environment deployments.
• Developed a custom browser-side feature toggling library after no suitable solution existed, enabling the team to incrementally deliver a modernized React e-commerce experience and reduce deployment risk.

Identified a knowledge-sharing gap across client teams and founded a JavaScript Frontend forum that grew into an organization-wide technical community, while building hands-on frontend expertise across multiple projects and contributing to open source React Native tooling.

IC across 2 client engagements focused on GUI applications. Built a Vanilla JS interactive experience for the New York Philharmonic's Lincoln Portrait archive.