Daniel Smallwood

About Daniel Smallwood

Engineering leader with 15+ years of total experience of proven leadership and software development in the video games industry, working with over 20 released titles for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and Mobile. Utilizing agile methodologies, spearheaded strategies to improve product delivery efficiency by over 50%, reduce costs by up to 40% and identifying and improving performance issues of back-end systems by more than 10x.Experienced in managing teams working on large multi-million-dollar projects, guiding best practices, fostering cross-functional collaboration and mentoring high-performing teams to deliver exceptional results, with a goal of delivering for high-performance focused and large scale projects.With a background in games and online advertising, and I am passionate about solving complex at-scale problems, reducing risk by automating complex processes, and working with product development to effectively plan product roadmaps and feature development within time and financial budgets.My goal is to grow talented engineering teams, and to improve velocity of their development lifecycle to hit roadmap targets and meet the financial goals of the products they build.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Griple

   Feb 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

Education

• New England Institute of Technology

  Associate of Science, Game Design & Simulation Programming

Skills

• Forums
• Mobile Applications
• Codeigniter
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Web Development
• C++
• Perl
• Python
• Lamp
• Html
• Vbulletin
• Game Development
• Sqlyog
• Html5
• Git
• Jquery
• Xampp
• Oop
• Html + Css
• Vmware
• Ubuntu
• Video Games
• Java
• Drupal
• Sql
• Linux
• Centos
• Sql Server
• Advanced Css
• Node.js
• Apis
• Mysql
• Shell Scripting
• Vpn
• Phpbb
• Php
• Wamp
• Json
• Css