Daniel Balthaser
Create, Evolve, Refactor, Resolve
Bloomsburg University: B.S., Computer Science and Computer Forensics, 2011
Executive VP, Engineering
KLDiscovery, LLC
February 2020 - Present
Remote - Philadelphia, PA
- Led a team of 200+ employees across five countries on three continents, including Directors, Architects, Managers, Developers, QA Engineers, DevOps Engineers, DBAs, and Support Engineers.
- Responsible for Engineering, DevOps, Application Support, DBAs, and Salesforce.
- Opened an office in Athens, Greece.
- Established processes, workflows, and applications to facilitate increased employee development, engagement, transparency, accountability, and ROI.
- Oversaw planning, design, implementation, and support of all company applications including Nebula (an end-to-end eDiscovery platform), an eDiscovery processing platform handling multiple TB of data per day, 300+ Data Recovery tools supporting all major filesystems, TicketStream (an ERP supporting millions of tasks per year), multiple Salesforce instances, Data Preservations tools, etc.
- Led department through migration to Azure services.
- Formed a dedicated company DevOps team.
- Co-Inventor on three US Patents (US11140212, US11178208, and US11190574).
Vice President, Engineering
KLDiscovery, LLC
March 2016 - February 2020
Ambler, PA
- Led and developed a team of approximately 140 employees including Directors, Managers, Team Leaders, Developers and QA Engineers across four countries on two continents.
- Evaluated and integrated Kroll Ontrack and Compiled Software team members and software post-acquisition.
- Created and managed department budgets.
- Co-creator of custom portable eDiscovery hardware appliance.
Director, Engineering
KLDiscovery, LLC
Jan 2014 - Mar 2016
Ambler, PA
- Managed a team of 30 managers, software engineers, and QA engineers across two states.
- Performed due diligence on the technologies and Engineering team for the acquisitions of RenewData and Interlegis.
- Participated in due diligence process for the company's technologies and Engineering team members for LDiscovery's recapitalization by Carlyle.
Manager, Engineering
KLDiscovery, LLC
May 2013 - Jan 2014
Fort Washington, PA
- Managed a team of 18 software engineers and QA engineers.
- Performed due diligence on the technologies and Engineering team for the acquisition of AlphaLit.
- Evaluated and integrated AlphaLit team members and software post-acquisition.
- Participated in ISO 27001 certification process.
Software Team Lead
KLDiscovery, LLC
Dec 2011 - May 2013
Fort Washington, PA
- Managed a team of 7 software engineers.
- Developed an organization-wide C# style guide.
- Worked with multiple departments to establish company standards and processes including security.
Software Engineer
KLDiscovery, LLC
May 2011 - Dec 2011
Fort Washington, PA
- Designed, created, tested, deployed, maintained, and supported multiple core business applications and libraries.
- Applications include an eDiscovery Hosting Platform, multiple eDiscovery Data Processing Applications, and multiple Digital Forensics Collections Applications.
- Evaluated, recruited, hired, trained, and onboarded new team members.
- Created company core software development infrastructure including version control and backlog management software.
Intern/Software Developer
BLaST Intermediate Unit 17
2009 - 2011
Williamsport, PA
- Lead Programmer on ASP.NET (C#) applications and central authentication server.
Areas of Interest
- Rock Climbing (Sport/Trad/Big Wall)
- Ultralight Backpacking
- Motorcycles (On and Off Road)
- Electric Vehicles
- CAD/3D Modeling
- Welding/Fabrication
- Woodworking
- Microcontrollers
- Reverse Engineering
- Automation
- Systems Optimization
- Mentoring
- Lambic Brewing
- Landscape Photography