Daniel Neighman
Chief Technology Officer at Foundation
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Neighman is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Austin with 11 years in software and a career that stretches back to mechanical engineering and product/process roles. He has led engineering and technology strategy at fast-growing startups and marketplaces—most recently as CTO at royal.io and now at Foundation—after senior engineering roles at Opendoor and Square. Daniel combines hands-on engineering expertise in Rails, JavaScript, cloud operations and system architecture with product-focused leadership that scales teams and systems. His background in mechanical engineering and early work in CAD, FEA, and lean manufacturing gives him a practical systems-thinking lens for building reliable, production-grade software. Known for bridging deep technical execution with business strategy, he thrives on turning complex technical constraints into pragmatic product outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Mechanical Engineering at Swinburne University of TechnologyGrad Dip Computing, Grad Dip Computing at La Trobe University
Github Skills (107)
ueberauth10
authentication10
guardian10
protocol-buffers10
guardian-db10
test-server10
elixir-programming-language10
jwt10
protobuf10
database10
translation10
elixir10
serialization10
google10
authorization10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
iaintshine/ruby-test-tracer
May 2018 - Feb 2025
OpenTracing compatible Tracer implementation to be used in tests in Ruby
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 10 months
opentracingrubyrspecteststracer
hassox/absinthe_proto
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
Protobuf (gRPC) -> Graphql
Contributions:53 commits, 15 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year
graphqlgrpcprotobuf
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