Danny Smith

Consultant

Armakuni

Pole Star EAM

Chief Operations Officer

Oyster®

Consultant - Remote Workplace Design & People Ops

Delocate (acquired by Oyster)

Principal Consultant

RED Academy

VP Technology

Global Curriculum Director, Technology

Lead Instructor

Ada. National College for Digital Skills

Curriculum Designer & Lecturer

CharlieHR

Senior Software Engineer

Sparta Global

I wore *a lot* of hats as we grew from a 3-employee startup to 80+ folks

All Sorts

Royal Air Force Air Cadets

Adjutant, Central Training Team, HQ RAFAC

COO & Consultant | Creating high-performance remote organisations 👨‍💻🌍

I work with leaders to intentionally design remote organisations & ways of working, laying the foundations for rapid scaling, long-term organisational health, and a globally distributed workforce.

I spent 2021 at Oyster, scaling their fully-remote (globally distributed) company from 14 to 500 people (and a $1bn valuation). Which was absolutely wild.

I work mostly at the intersection of system design, human behaviour, remote work & operations. I'm convinced that knowledge work has no borders and the "remote work revolution" has the power to make the world a fairer and more equal place for everyone. Globally distributed companies are the future.  And the remote workplace should be diverse, safe & supportive for all.

I talk about "Organisational Health" a lot because healthy orgs feel calm when ploughing through unknown waters at 1000mph and can operate on the edge of chaos without being chaotic: much better for our people, and our business. Since systemic health problems have a disproportionately large effect on distributed remote teams (and quickly compound with scale), I'm on a mission to help folks be more intentional about how they design & transform remote-first orgs.

➡️ Read more on this → https://danny.is/writing/organisational-health

I love meeting new folks, so hit me up if you wanna chat 🙂☎️

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Wanna learn about remote best practices? 👇

· Oyster Reef → https://oysterhr.notion.site/Welcome-to-The-Reef-Oyster-s-Open-Source-Employee-Guide-fc482e3f107c4afd8c85ed217f1d0c1d
· Some tiny remote working tips → https://danny.is/remote

If you've read this far you *might* be interested to know...

· I've a sporadic sideline in personal coaching and team facilitation.
· I used to be a software engineer, but realised I have a much bigger impact when I help others do their thing better. And now that's my thing. (I still code, but just for fun.)
· Before that I was a blues musician. I still perform and jam lots: music has this weird ability to transcend language and cultural barriers.
· I'm a generalist. Obviously. Sorry not sorry.


In the past, my desire to "make work better for everyone" saw me doing:

· Education → curriculum design, learning design, teaching etc.
· Engineering process → DevOps, architecture etc
· Agile coaching & delivery process (SAFe still gives me nightmares).
· Design systems before they were hip.

Remote & Hybrid Work Counselor || Team Leader || NetOps, SysOps & Infrastructure Expert, open4work || Bringing humane IT into smb & corporate, to create a better world! || Nomadic Poli-Athlete, Mental Health Advisor

IT Consultant for Future-Ready Workplaces
Security, AI, and modern work enablement 

Evolving from IT foundations (Dell Servers, Microsoft 365 administration) into learning and producing architecting secure, AI-enhanced ecosystems, Zero Trust security, auditing and monitoring. Providing phishing and malware training, Jira and similar automations (+20% efficiency), and onboarding optimizations.

AI & Modern Work Leadership (Human-Centric by Design)

Founder/CEO Limitless Enduring (HRM and DEI, IT, AI automation); advocate via Grapevine, Remote Rebellion, Remote Work Europe, FLC – Building empathetic, trauma-informed distributed cultures that reduce burnout and strengthen connection through community, sports, and events.

Continuous learning: Security & Zero Trust (Microsoft, Fortinet, NSE, SecAI+), AI & automation, GDPR & EU AI Act compliance, Atlassian platforms (ACP-120/420/630). Harvard CS50, O’Reilly scholarship, etc.

Open to €50k+ roles, partnerships (NEMEA & LATAM remote, CET flexible). Let's modernize work together! And let us make the world more sustainable and human connecting.

Tei M.

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