Meet the TurboTeam: Daniel Sacomani

TurboTenant is currently made up of over 80 full-time employees, most of whom are based in Colorado near either our Fort Collins or Denver offices. The exception is our Engineering team, which is made up of experts living all over the world, crisscrossing languages and time zones to work together at making our product the best in the industry.

One such engineering expert is Daniel Sacomani, Director of Engineering at TurboTenant. At our annual Obsess Fest, in which TurboTenant flies every employee into Colorado for a week of bonding and strategizing, we talked with Daniel about what makes TurboTenant such a great place for international team members to work.

Daniel Sacomani

What’s your name and where are you from? 

Daniel from Argentina.

And how long have you been at TurboTenant?

Well, for almost eight years. So it’s been a long time. I’ve been through many phases of the company. Many situations.

What’s a unique aspect of being an engineer here?

I think it’s very unique how we treat the offshore team. You know, the people from outside the US. We have this really good integration. We make them feel like they are part of the company. Of course we are part of the company, but it’s like we also make them feel that way because we have the PTO and the other benefits. And it’s so, so nice that we are integrated into the main meetings of the company. We don’t feel like contractors.

Can you describe a recent engineering challenge that you tackled? 

Well, yeah. Multi-user access. Multi-user access is basically being able to control the same account from many users, many emails. This is something that’s very valuable for our users, because if you think about it, it’s very common for many people to access the same portfolio, the same set of properties. And if you don’t have that ability, then you’re forced to share accounts, share the same email with other people. But now, it’s going to be possible for spouses to share with each other, or you to share your account with an accountant and maintenance person.

Or anybody else that needs access to your properties. And this was pretty challenging because the whole architecture of the application was built around just having a single person accessing your account. That’s a big thing to change.

As a remote engineer, how does TurboTenant ensure that you feel included? 

Well, we’re included as part of the team meetings every week. We also have the product teams, which are really balanced in a sense that we have all kinds of people, engineers from different locations and also designers and PMs. That makes us feel included because it’s a daily meeting that we have. We’re also included in this annual event that we have, as a company we all join together in Colorado, and it’s been really fun the last couple of years since we’ve started doing it.

What initially drew you to TurboTenant? 

I was looking for a startup position. Honestly, I wasn’t looking specifically for the rental industry. I was looking for a startup position. I was lucky enough to find a startup that was very successful from the start. We were growing at a steady pace and I never felt like I was bored or anything. So I got to stick around for many years. It’s been really fun.

So that’s what drove me mostly was the startup culture, having smaller teams and feeling like I can contribute more to the big goals that we have. I used to work with bigger companies in the past.

Can you share an example of how a specific TurboTenant Be Better virtue has impacted your work? 

Well, I suppose I’m mostly inspired by the Embrace the Plunger virtue because, I mean, as we’ve been working throughout the years, we had to fix a lot of things. You know, we have had different approaches to different problems, sometimes the same problems, and new problems that come up.

And as we have moved forward with our technology, as we have evolved, we had to fix what was there before. And that requires a lot of hard work and lots of discipline to go back and change and actually realize that what you did before, the choices that you made before, were not the ideal ones. So that’s kind of the most challenging thing, as an engineer, is to actually be there long enough to feel like your work, your own work, is legacy and has to be fixed. So in that sense, what inspired me, that Embrace the Plunger virtue actually helped me go back to that.

Learn More About TurboTenant

Daniel is just one of the many talented people that make up our TurboTeam and enable us to serve over 700k landlords across America and all of their tenants. You can learn more about our company’s mission and the Be Better Virtues that make us tick here.

If you’re interested in working alongside Daniel and our other engineers, check out our open roles here.