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About · Danielle McKee

The work behind
the work.

My career hasn't been a straight line — neuroscience research, then finance, then consulting. Each one offered a new skill or set of knowledge that's helped me navigate the unknown. I'm curious by nature, and I love turning ideas and objectives into technical reality.
— Danielle McKee
The path, most recent first

Work History

Independent Practice

Arc Theory · 2023 → present
Nov 2025 – present

Airbnb

Technical Lead & Consultant (Contract)

Set the technical direction and personally built the platform behind Airbnb's internal insider-access program — taking an early internal tool to a system the team can run and grow, with the integrations and incentive workflows it needed to scale.

65% fewer manual processes and three enterprise integrations shipped solo — left fully documented for the team to own.

  • GraphQL
  • Apache Hive
  • Google Cloud Run
  • React / TypeScript
2023 – present

Fiscal-Sponsorship Platform

Product Architect & Fractional Technology Partner

A fiscal sponsor's payments-and-operations platform. A single cloud integration service automates the expense-to-payment flow that used to be done by hand for every sponsored project — keeping intake, spend, and accounting reconciled end to end. Arc Theory has led its technical direction since 2023.

Roughly doubled the clients supported each month — 22 → 43 — with no added headcount.

  • Google Cloud Run
  • Ramp
  • QuickBooks
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Jun 2024 – Feb 2025

Apple

Solutions Consultant (Contract)

Embedded solutions consultant across Apple Music and Apple TV+. Designed and shipped seven internal operations systems — original-content tracking, audio QA, publishing dashboards, artist relations — and helped bridge two departments with a vendor-task automation microservice.

Standardized, visible workflows across content QA, publishing, and artist relations.

  • Internal integration services
2024 – 2025

Development Slate Platform

Product Architect & Strategic Product Oversight

A pre-production platform for a Los Angeles film & TV studio — a dual CRM and development-slate system that tracks incoming submissions and the projects moving through development. Re-architected and normalized the entire data model, built role-specific interfaces, and wired native contacts and calendar integration across iOS and Android.

20+ hours a week saved through scheduling automation; seven fragmented structures consolidated to one.

  • Google Calendar
  • Google Contacts
  • Zoom
2024

Budget ManagementB-PAID

Systems Architect / Product Lead

A budget-management platform for a cancer research institution (SCHARP & VIDD divisions). Documented the end-to-end process across four personas, then rebuilt it to track budget periods, POs, invoices, and contracts — replacing a rigid single-step approval with a dynamic, multi-layer one.

Calculation errors at the budget, contract, and PO level — resolved.

  • BPMN 2.0
  • DocuSign
2024

Travel Approval & ExpenseB-TRIP

Systems Architect / Product Lead

Replaced lost-in-SharePoint travel approvals with a BPMN-modeled system — dynamic, conference-aware request forms, sequenced approval chains, and a DocuSign automation that maps record data into the right PDF, routes for signature, and tracks completion.

Finance gained real-time visibility into requests against budget; auditable trails replaced lost paperwork.

  • DocuSign
  • BPMN 2.0

Earlier Career

The foundation · 2016 – 2023
Dec 2021 – Dec 2023

Deloitte

Operations Transformation Consultant

Advised enterprise clients through large-scale operational and systems change — guided a major energy company through an SAP migration aligning 15 cross-functional teams, and led data-process work that strengthened HEDIS reporting compliance for a large healthcare provider.

The discovery-and-facilitation muscle I now apply to platform architecture.

  • SAP
  • LucidChart
  • Signavio
Sep 2020 – Dec 2021

Olive AI

Financial Analyst & Business Partner

Financial strategy at a high-growth healthcare-automation startup. Automated headcount expense forecasting and built my first production low-code integrations — connecting the HRIS to the financial model — which became the backbone of the practice.

Where the practice's low-code integration backbone began.

  • Financial modeling
Jan 2018 – May 2020

The Ohio State University

Spreadsheet & Databases Teaching Assistant

Guided undergraduate finance students through in-class Excel modeling exercises, teaching core spreadsheet and database concepts alongside how they show up in real analyst work.

The analytical foundation the rest of the practice was built on.

  • Excel
  • Relational databases
Summer 2016 – Summer 2017

Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Research Assistant

Neuroscience research in a temporal lobe epilepsy lab, studying how neurons responded to electrical activity — running the statistical analysis behind it. Where the curiosity about how things work got rigorous.

"If you can survive a neuroscience lab, you can survive anything."

  • Statistical analysis
  • Clinical data
Where it started

Education

2016 – 2020

The Ohio State University

B.S. in Finance

Tools & Tech

The full stack I design and build with — languages to infrastructure.
Languages
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
Front-end
  • Next.js / React
Back-end & data
  • Node.js
  • Postgres
  • Supabase
  • Apache Hive
AI & LLMs
  • Anthropic / Claude
  • Gemini
  • LLM agents
  • MCP
APIs & protocols
  • GraphQL
  • REST
  • Webhooks
Auth & security
  • OAuth
  • Session auth
  • RBAC
  • Compliance middleware
Cloud & infra
  • GCP Cloud Run
  • Vercel
  • GitHub
Low-codeiFor in-flux business logic — POCs, validation, or an admin UI over production middleware. Integrations live in GCP.
  • Airtable
Platforms integratediThird-party systems I've built API & webhook integrations with.
  • Ramp
  • QuickBooks
  • DocuSign
  • Google Workspace
Modeling & docs
  • BPMN 2.0
  • Lucidchart
  • Signavio
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