Summary
Daniel Harbor is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View with 11 years building full-stack and distributed systems, currently shaping PayPal’s World platform. He brings deep payments and edge-device experience from leading a 15-engineer team to deliver Braintree’s in-person payments stack—Rust on devices and serverless AWS orchestration—plus Java public APIs for merchant integrations. His background spans frontend feature work at paypal.com, energy-distribution software at Tesla, and core C++ portability efforts at Autodesk, reflecting versatility across embedded, cloud, and web domains. A Carnegie Mellon Software Management master’s grad, he pairs hands-on engineering with team leadership and a knack for shipping complex, cross-platform systems that connect physical devices to scalable cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, Computer Science, Study Abroad, Computer Science at American University
Master's Degree, Software Management, Master's Degree, Software Management at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at American University of Nigeria
English, Yoruba, Hausa, Spanish