about_

My name is Daniel May. I'm originally from the UK, but now I live in Los Angeles.

I started writing code when I was young because it was the quickest way to automate a game I got bored with. I've turned that curiosity and passion for self-directed learning into a twenty-year software engineering career, and now I've had the opportunity to impact millions of people's interactions with computers. You might be one of them! :)

The first real chunk of my professional experience was in London's finance sector, building low-latency foreign-exchange trading platforms before leading engineering teams on other investment banking and ad-tech projects. From there I founded Ring Leader Solutions, a boutique consulting firm, and grew the engineering team from zero to ten while delivering systems for investment banks and energy brokers.

In 2017 I moved to the US and joined Whole Foods Market in Austin, leading the platform program that replaced the in-store mobile fleet and reshaped experiences for store team members, saving thousands of hours. I stayed on as an SDM at Amazon after some reshuffling, but eventually went west to Riot Games and spent three and a half years leading the VALORANT Build Platforms team, working to deliver infrastructure for more than five hundred developers behind a game with tens of millions of players.