Sophia Daniels

Overview

I lead cloud infrastructure at Rivet Care in New York. Shipped 22 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Pinterest and Target. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. CTO

   Jan 2023 - Present
   Rivet Care · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 767ms to 144ms.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 5.
   • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 43% in two quarters.
2. Director of Engineering

   Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
   Pinterest · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Wrote the Go service that now handles 79 million requests a day.
3. Engineering Manager

   May 2017 - Feb 2020
   Target · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Moved 71% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Site Reliability Engineer

   Aug 2013 - Mar 2017
   Dell Technologies · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 837ms to 98ms.
5. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Aug 2010 - Apr 2013
   Instacart · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 3.

Projects

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Education

1. Stanford GSB

   MBA, Business Administration
   2007 - 2009
2. MIT

   SB, Electronics and Communication
   2003 - 2007