Dan Motpan

Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2025 - Present • 1 yr 4 mos

• Lead and mentor a multi-level Front-End team, conducting regular 1:1s, performance reviews,career development plans, OKRs, and individualized coaching based on strengths and growth areas. • Oversee technical delivery across 6+ simultaneous projects, ensuring predictable timelines and high-quality implementations. • Define and enforce front-end architecture, coding standards, code review rules, design patterns, and shared component libraries for organizational consistency. • Own complex architectural and strategic FE decisions, acting as the technical escalation point for challenging tasks and cross-project integrations. • Drive improvements in developer workflows: CI/CD rules, release pipelines, automated checks, code-quality gates, and engineering best practices. • Collaborate with PMs, BAs, and QA on requirements, estimations, sprint planning, and early risk identification to ensure smooth delivery. • Mentor interns and junior engineers, supporting them from onboarding to independent feature ownership and professional progression. • Maintain high-quality documentation: FE guidelines, project architecture, API usage, release procedures, and the internal engineering knowledge base. • Lead technical discovery phases, translating business requirements into clear, actionable tasks and technical plans. • Communicate technical trade-offs, priorities, and risks clearly to stakeholders, ensuring alignment between business goals and engineering execution. • Contribute to resource planning and workload distribution, ensuring balanced capacity across multiple projects and deadlines.

Technical Lead

Dec 2023 - Jul 2025 • 1 yr 7 mos

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, supporting them in solving complex challenges and ensuring consistent adherence to coding standards and best practices. • Drive architectural design and system planning for scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions, selecting appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools to support business needs. • Oversee code quality through structured code reviews and enforce testing strategies that ensure robustness, maintainability, and reliability. • Facilitate agile delivery by contributing to accurate estimations, participating in sprint reviews, and aligning development progress with project timelines. • Mentor junior developers and interns, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. • Lead innovation initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve workflows, introduce modern technologies, and elevate team efficiency. • Collaborate transparently with stakeholders, providing regular updates on progress, identifying risks early, and aligning expectations with technical realities. • Ensure comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API references, and user-facing guides, is maintained and accessible.