Daniela Miao — CEO
I’ve spent my career obsessed with optimizing distributed infrastructure until we take it for granted. From my time as a TL on AWS DynamoDB to joining Lightstep as employee #9 (scaling the platform from pre-revenue to a 9-figure acquisition), I’ve learned that before a technology can be ubiquitous, its foundation must be battle tested. That's what we are tackling at Momento - the next great infrastructure challenge in the Agent Era. We are building a high-performance stateful layer that breaks the "millisecond floor" to target sub-100μs latencies, ensuring that the next generation of AI never has to wait on its data. Technical DNA of our team: 1. Distributed Systems: Architecting at global scale (AWS, GCP). 2. Hyper-Optimization: Tuning the Linux kernel, gRPC, and Rust runtimes for micro-latencies. 3. GTM & Growth: Scaling engineering teams through hyper-growth and successful exits. I’m a proud MIT and University of Toronto alum who believes infrastructure should be invisible, instantaneous, and relentlessly efficient. If you’re also building for the 100μs future, let's talk.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS infrastructure expert with a focus on distributed systems and performance optimization.
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Experience: 13 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Leadership
- Platform Engineering
- Gtm & Growth
Career Highlights
- Co-founded a startup scaling from pre-revenue to acquisition.
- Expert in optimizing distributed infrastructure.
- Led engineering teams through hyper-growth phases.
Work Experience
Momento
Co-Founder and CTO (4 yrs 10 mos)
Lightstep
Director of Engineering (3 yrs 11 mos)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Engineer (3 yrs)
IBM Canada Software Lab - Toronto
Database Engineer (2 yrs)
Education
Master of Science (M.S.) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) at University of Toronto