What Danielle Olivera From Summer House Really Does For A Living
"Summer House" isn't a full-time job for its cast members. The Bravo reality show follows a group of New York-based friends who vacation weekly in a high-end Hamptons house. Fans get glimpses of the reality stars' real-life jobs back in New York City. "Summer House" OG Kyle Cooke, for example, launched an adult beverage company, Loverboy, and works with both his wife, Amanda Batula, and his best friend, Carl Radke. Lindsay Hubbard heads her own public relations firm, Hubb House PR, and longtime co-star Paige DeSorbo's career as a fashion writer has also been highlighted on the show.
Danielle Olivera first joined "Summer House" as a main cast member in Season 2, but she scaled back to "friend" status a few summers later to focus on her real-life career. Once the COVID-19 pandemic changed the format of "Summer House" — instead of traveling back and forth from the city to the Hamptons every weekend the group stayed put at the party house for continuous filming in a six-week bubble, per The Wrap — Olivera returned as a main star on the show. Viewers got to see her work space, but many fans may not know what she actually does for a living.
Danielle Olivera works as a product manager and she's working on an app
"Summer House" fans have seen Danielle Olivera hunkered down in front of her work computer, but what exactly is she working on? In a 2022 interview with Showbiz CheatSheet, she revealed that she has a finance background but switched to a focus on technology more than five years ago. Olivera told the outlet that she combined her two fields to work in the "FinTech industry." "What I do there is I'm a product manager," she said. "I really just work with all the coders to build software for the financial industry."
Olivera, a University of Delaware graduate, has multiple technical certifications. On her LinkedIn page, she describes herself as "a product ninja, currently in FinTech." She started her career at a company called BizFi, where she first worked as an underwriter before working her way up to product manager, per Bustle.
Olivera is currently working on developing her own app. In June 2022, she told Distractify that she was focusing completely on developing Socialyte, a fashion-based app for celebrities and influencers. "It's going slower than I would like," she admitted at the time. "There are a lot of hurdles that I'm trying to overcome and there's always that feeling of imposter syndrome. No one takes CEO lessons or knows exactly how to do it, so I'm learning a lot along the way." She also partnered with Fidelity Bloom, an app that helps people analyze their spending habits. "It was a no brainer partnership for me," Olivera said.
Danielle Olivera had issues working while filming Summer House
Early on, Danielle Olivera's real-life career directly affected how much time she could devote to filming "Summer House." When she was first reduced from main cast member to part-time "friend" status for Season 4, she explained on Instagram, "I wanted nothing more than to be back in the house every weekend. But I knew it would be incredibly difficult for me to balance my career and filming." Olivera added, "I had a lot of work travel and a work schedule that was inflexible at the time. If you know me, you know my career is what's most important to me and something I won't jeopardize."
More recently, she told Showbiz CheatSheet that working in the "Summer House" isn't easy. She admitted she was nervous that she wouldn't have an appropriate desk setup for the multiple computer screens she uses for her job, and she had to have an ergonomic chair because she sits down all day while working. "I just have, like, a very strict Zoom schedule, like back to back," Olivera explained. "There was a Wifi situation and I had to get an extender," she added, noting that the internet connection in the Hamptons is slow.
Olivera also noted that, while she loves all her co-stars, they can sometimes get too chatty when she's trying to work her day job. "Everyone wants to chat during the day," she said. "I mean, I can't chat. So I just put my schedule on my door and closed it."