Dan Westgarth
Chief Operating Officer at Deel
Dan Westgarth is Chief Operating Officer at Deel, the global payroll and HR platform, which he joined in 2019 when it was a small contractor-invoicing tool and has helped scale into a business spanning more than 150 countries. He leads Deel's onboarding, customer success, payroll operations and compliance functions, and has helped integrate several acquisitions along the way. Before Deel, Westgarth held senior operating roles at Revolut, focused on global expansion and go-to-market execution. On Day One's In The Blink Of AI, he discussed the AI agent inside Deel that writes its own production code.
In their own words
From Deel's COO on the AI Agent Writing Its Own Code · In The Blink Of AIAround just over two thirds of all code that is committed is actually coming from AI.
Career
- Now Chief Operating Officer · Deel
- Until 2019 · Scale-up North America General Manager / international expansion · Revolut
- From 2020 Founder · Expansion Capital
Sources: deel.com, opensourceceo.com
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of Deel's COO on the AI Agent Writing Its Own Code you want.
- 0:00 Cold open, the AI agent that writes its own code
- 0:46 Show intro, Deel's sponsorship, and what's ahead
- 2:30 What Deel actually does
- 3:14 Rapid AI hot takes, finance roles, human oversight, hardware, sports, and the World Cup
- 9:29 Why Deel keeps winning after seven years
- 10:00 How the product evolved from contractor invoicing to a full HR platform
- 11:28 What Dan looks for when hiring
- 13:06 Leaving Revolut for Deel
- 14:57 The YC Winter 2019 connection
- 15:49 Setting targets and building momentum
Connections
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