Danny Laurence, smiling, in a light blue button-down shirt.

Danny Laurence

VP of Engineering. Maryland Terrapin. Loud shirts, louder singing.

I joined Team Engine as employee #5 eight years ago. I wrote much of the platform, then built and led the team that runs it — all while our customer base grew 10x. Today I’m VP of Engineering, and I still love breaking production with my code.

Years writing software for a living
17
Vinyl records in my collection
183
Lines of code I’ve shipped at Team Engine
200k+

Experience

  1. 2024 – now

    VP of Engineering, Team Engine

    I lead product and engineering. I took us through SOC 2 Type 2 and moved the team to two-week sprints. Lately I’ve been building AI into the product, while helping customers adapt as the job boards they rely on change their rules.

  2. 2022 – 2024

    Director of Engineering, Team Engine

    I built the team, drove hiring, and designed how we worked: pods, on-call rotation, incident retros, data-driven yearly review — to name a few. When new carrier rules changed business texting, I redesigned how we use phone numbers, and made it so every customer was registered automatically.

  3. 2018 – 2022

    Employee #5 (Software Engineer), Team Engine

    I wrote much of the platform’s foundation: text and email messaging, job distribution to Indeed and other boards, calendar integrations, and the shared database layer. The text-message queue I designed has been in production for more than six years. I also built our employee engagement product, a bet we made in 2020 that continues to drive value for customers.

  4. 2016 – 2018

    Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton

    I built features for LCMP, a lifecycle-management platform for the Department of Defense. I re-architected parts of it to host new Angular apps, designed the core UI library that kept its screens consistent, and co-led an automated-testing initiative.

  5. 2014 – 2016

    Consultant, Dante Inc.

    I architected and shipped the iOS app for Ouli, a personal concierge app for the DC area, plus an iOS SDK with Apple Pay and iBeacon support. I also broke a monolith into microservices, automated our AWS environments, and gave a TEDx talk on what Ouli could do for a city.

    Watch the TEDx talk

  6. 2013

    IT Intern, BD

    I gathered requirements for an internal service, then designed and built the website that replaced a manual business process.

  7. 2012 – 2013

    Intern, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

    I designed and built a real-time FPGA system for generating arbitrary waveforms.

  8. 2010 – 2013

    B.S. Computer Science, University of Maryland

    QUEST Honors Program. As a Teaching Fellow, I designed and taught a course on web development (BMGT 408C).

Danny Laurence finishing an iron shot on a tree-lined golf course, watching the ball.

About

Off the clock I’m a dad first, and after that usually on a golf course, probably in a loud shirt.

I live in Northern Virginia, just outside DC.

  • I play three instruments: piano, guitar, and voice. Yes, voice counts, and I use it often and enthusiastically, mostly on pop punk and classic rock.
  • Lego builds are on display all over my home and office. The giant Star Trek: The Next Generation set is still waiting for me.
  • I’m probably watching something old, like Batman ’66, Mission: Impossible, or Smokey and the Bandit.
  • Ask me a trivia question. If I don’t know the answer, I owe you a beer.
  • Before I settled on software, I spent most of college with an oscilloscope and a soldering iron.

Danny does not pass up a teaching moment.

Surprisingly, not a student Team Engine, 2023

Work with me

I take on consulting and expert witness work in software and engineering leadership.

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Contact

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