Senior Software Engineer · Founder · AI Tooling
Daniel Silva
Montiel
Building the systems — and the tools that make building them faster.
I'm a backend engineer at dotCMS, where I own the production escalations nobody else could crack and build the AI tooling — Claude Code skills, agents, MCP servers — that support and engineering now run on. I'm also the founder of triippii.app, a mobile app that connects travelers around the world, which I design and build solo. Outside of work, I play guitar and follow sports.
01 / About
My work sits deep in the systems layer — and lately, in the AI tooling that makes working there dramatically faster.
At dotCMS I own Tier 3 escalations — the production problems that have made it past everyone else — reproducing, diagnosing and patching them inside real customer environments. Alongside that I built the AI engineering layer the support and maintenance teams now use daily: custom Claude Code skills, purpose-built agents, and MCP servers wired into the codebase and the observability stack.
The same instinct led me to build triippii.app solo — design, backend, mobile client, App Store release, go-to-market — a place for travelers to find and connect with each other. Away from work, I play guitar and keep up with sports.
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer
- Focus
- Backend & AI Tooling
- Company
- dotCMS
- Founder of
- triippii.app
- Plays
- Guitar
- Follows
- Sports
Music
Play guitar most evenings.
Sports
Follow a few, play when I can.
Travel
Building triippii for travelers.
02 / Selected work
What I'm building.
Founder & CEO · Mobile app
triippii.app
A mobile app that connects travelers — helping people meet, share plans, and explore the world together instead of alone. I build it end to end, solo: product and design, backend, mobile client, App Store release, and go-to-market.
A look inside
Senior Software Engineer · Tier 3 & AI Tooling
dotCMS
Fifteen years inside an enterprise content platform — distributed publishing, Elasticsearch indexing, GraphQL, query and cache performance. Today I take the escalations that reach the end of the line, and build the tooling that gets everyone else there faster.
03 / Experience
The path so far.
Senior Software Engineer · Tier 3 & Maintenance
dotCMS
Owning Tier 3 escalations end to end, and the AI engineering layer — Claude Code skills, agents, MCP servers — that cut time-to-fix and lifted delivery throughput across support and maintenance.
Founder & CEO
triippii.app
Founded and build a mobile app that connects travelers — product, design, engineering and growth, end to end, as a solo founder.
Lead Backend Developer
dotCMS
Designed and shipped the platform features customers lean on hardest — push publishing, Experiments, the Rules Engine, the GraphQL API — plus Elasticsearch indexing and the query and cache performance work underneath it all.
04 / Contact