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Dan Halem

Energizer · DISC type I
Vice President, Office of the CTO at Microsoft
📍 Scotts Valley, California, United States

Dan is the Vice President in the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, with a background as a Principal Software Engineer at Google. He has led site reliability for core systems in Ads and Search and has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

He identifies as an Art Critic and took personal time for "Existential Contemplation, " which involved spending time with his animals and catching up on pop culture he had missed over the past couple of decades.

Unique fact: Despite a career as a high-level software engineer and tech executive, he describes his occupation as "Art Critic. "

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Vice President, Office of the CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Scotts Valley, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Dan shows up

Believer
Enthusiastic
Informal

Unlike C or D types, they are vocal with their opinions but not so much with their questions. They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships. They are friendly, approachable and love to make new connections.

Priorities

Topics Dan cares about

Site Reliability
Served as the Tech Lead for site reliability for the core systems that power Google Ads and Search.
System Modernization
Initiated and led a major redesign of a search logging and analytics system that was running on 20-year-old code.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Vice President, Office of the CTO
Microsoft
3-2024 - 10-2024
Principal Software Engineer (Site Reliability)
Google
2-2021 - 3-2024
Existential Contemplation
Personal
3-2007 - 10-2021
Principal Software Engineer
Google
12-2005 - 3-2007
Principal Software Engineer
Kodak EasyShare Gallery(formerly Ofoto)
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
9-1989 - 6-1993
Bachelor of Arts - BA
University of California, Santa Cruz
1993 - 1998
Education details unavailable
UC Irvine
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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