Daryl Manning

dwm@wakatara.com
+65 8315 0747
Singapore

Summary

Executive tech and data leader with 18 years experience in engineering, platforms, and product strategy. Builder of high-performance teams and product infrastructure platforms across travel, fintech, gaming, and food delivery. Specialist in data-driven product strategy and engineering, ML/AI, analytics, and operations.

Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Blackpanda · Singapore/Remote · Apr 2023 - Apr 2025

Cybersecurity, incident response, and cyberinsurance for APAC SMEs. Rebuilt product and platform. Scaled product revenues from near-zero to $3.2M by FYE 2024, securing $6.7M Series A2 funding.

Global VP Data

Delivery Hero · Berlin/Singapore · Oct 2020 - Dec 2022

Led global data strategy and operations for €30B+ food delivery group operating in 74 countries (Foodpanda, Glovo, Talabat, Woowa, etc.).

VP Data

Traveloka · Singapore/Jakarta · Oct 2017 - Jun 2020

SouthEast Asia’s $5B travel unicorn. Led all data platform, data science, ML, and Analytics teams across 17 business units and 8 countries.

Managing Director, APAC

Pivotal Labs APAC (Neo Innovation) · Singapore · Sep 2013 - Jun 2017

Celebrated APAC venture builder acquired by Dell in 2016. Led company to $10M+ ARR turnaround in under 2 years.

Director of Information Technology (CIO)

Amnesty International - International Secretariat · London · Oct 2006 - Oct 2009

Amnesty is the world’s largest human rights NGO. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Led global technology strategy, DevOps, software development, infrastructure, support, and digital campaigning across 74 country and regional offices.

Directeur Technique (CIO)

Michel Dyens & Co · Paris/New York · Apr 1999 - Dec 2002

Led IT for France’s 5th largest private M&A bank and its startup incubator.

Technologies

Skill Competencies
Engineering Go, Python, Ruby, some Rust (APIs, GraphQL, full stack applications)
Data BigQuery, Athena/Redshift, Databricks, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, Prefect
ML/AI TensorFlow, PyTorch, real-time inference, personalization, optimization, fraud/AML
Dev/MLOps AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD (Argo, GH, CircleCI), Kubeflow, Dataflow, feature stores
Architectures Data Mesh, Evented, Stream Processing, Data Lake, Serverless, ETL/ELT
Analytics Product Analytics, Metrics/OKRs/KPIs, Experimentation, BI

Volunteer Experience

Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii · USA · 2023-present

Architected and built NASA-commissioned global system for scientific comet data

Amphibian Ark International · Australia/USA · 2013-2023

Built global management system for amphibian species’ survival and reintroduction programs.

Education

MSc Information Technology, University of Liverpool · 2003
BA Honours Economics and Political Science, Western University · 1992

Languages

English native, French advanced, Spanish proficient, Italian beginner