Daniel Kim currently serves as Engineering Director at Meta (formerly Facebook), and joined in early 2007 as approximately the 200th employee, making him currently the 11th longest-tenured employee. Most recently, he led NPE (New Product Experimentation) Korea, Meta's internal incubator and a key part of its global expansion strategy.

Previously, he led engineering teams at Oculus, where his team was responsible for Horizon Home, Guardian, Anytime UI, and Notifications for the Quest series headsets. At Instagram, he founded and led the Growth engineering team, which directly contributed to growing Instagram's user base from 170 million to 1.1 billion users in five years. As an engineer, Daniel was a founding member of Facebook's Android team, helping to lead Facebook's mobile transition in 2010, and was a founding member of the original Growth team in 2008 that created the industry-leading user growth playbook.

Prior to Facebook, he worked briefly at Oracle and Booz Allen Hamilton. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in three years, with a minor in Robotics. He was also a charter member and founding member of Carnegie Mellon University's Alpha Kappa Psi chapter.

Born and raised in Maryland, Daniel moved to the California Bay Area after graduating from college and lived there for 16 years. In 2021, he relocated to Korea with his family, where he continues to reside. He was a volleyball player for four years in high school and currently enjoys watching and playing all types of sports as a hobby. He is also a startup investor with Sand Hill Angels and started a podcast in 2023 comparing Korean and American cultures.