Daniel Nieh

Daniel leads engineering at Aptus, building the software and AI-driven workflows that make the firm’s investment and tax-optimization work faster, smarter, and easier to use.

Daniel has spent more than 12 years building software in the San Francisco Bay Area, across early-stage startups and large, established companies. Before Aptus he was an engineering manager at Coinbase, where he led a team, mentored engineers into senior and staff roles, and owned reliability for his group’s systems, and an engineer at Numerai, a crowdsourced hedge fund. He joined Aptus in 2024 as Principal Engineer and became Head of Engineering in 2026, where he oversees the firm’s technology platform, its AI adoption efforts, and the team that builds both. He studied Philosophy and Computer Science at UCI and UCLA.

Outside work, Daniel loves to travel with his wife and three kids, surf wherever the waves are firing, and work on cars. His current project is a 1998 Stagea 260RS he imported from Japan.