Founder Profile
Daniel Dines
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Daniel Dines?
Daniel Dines is a founder of UiPath, which was founded in 2005 with Marius Tîrcă.
- Company founded
- UiPath
- Founded
- 2005
- Co-founders
- Marius Tîrcă
Background
Dines worked as a software developer at Microsoft in the United States before returning to Romania. That engineering background shaped UiPath's early product, which was built on screen-automation and UI-recognition libraries.
Founding Story
Daniel Dines is a Romanian software engineer who co-founded the company that became UiPath in Bucharest in 2005. He led the shift from developer libraries to robotic process automation, took the company public on the NYSE in April 2021, and returned as sole CEO in June 2024 after a period as co-CEO and Chief Innovation Officer.
Daniel Dines was born in 1972 in Onești.
Daniel Solomon Dines was born in January 1972 and is Romanian.