Daniel Berry.

About Daniel

I write.
I build things.

I live in rural southern Tennessee, where I write, build software, and try to make myself useful.

I’m a proud uncle, a devoted college football fan, and a golfer who loves the game despite being terrible at it.

Daniel smiling at a restaurant table
Daniel BerryAway from the desk.

AI, technology & leadership

What I build.
How I lead.

I’m Engineering Lead at Rimsys, reporting to the CTO. I lead global engineering, quality assurance and product functions, connecting business needs to development and delivery.

Through Built by Berry, my own company, I develop AI applications, software tools and client applications. My products include Prymer, Marshall and Laravel Swarm.

My books and essays explore choices and their consequences. Those questions also run through my leadership writing.

Explore my professional work Read What Leadership Asks of Us

Writing The Inconvenient Human

It got personal.

I began The Inconvenient Human expecting to make an argument about human nature. The conversations behind it kept turning toward my own life.

I found myself writing about how easily I could let a political label stand in for knowing someone, and how differently that felt when someone did it to me. I had to look at what I asked of loyalty, and what I let it excuse.

Writing the book was an eye-opener. Some of what it brought up still needs time. I don’t assume every feeling I examine is a problem to fix.

Read the introduction

Away from the page

Family, work,
and one more thing.

My family gives my drive a purpose. They are why I keep reaching, building, and trying to leave things better than I found them.

I enjoy making things: a thought becoming a paragraph, an idea becoming an application someone can use. I’m ambitious and stubborn, which often looks like working on one more thing when I should close the laptop and be where I am.

I have a BS in Software Development and an MBA in Information Technology Management, and I have served Tullahoma as an elected official.

Beyond the page

What did it
bring up for you?

Something familiar? Something you see differently? A question of your own? I’d like to hear it.

Let’s talk

Thinking of a conversation with your group or organization? Invite me to speak.