Daniel Draper
Founding Octoneer at octomind
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Draper is a founding engineer and senior full-stack software developer with 11 years of experience, currently leading engineering and product discovery at octomind where he scaled the team from 1 to 8 and helped drive $4.8M in seed funding. He blends machine learning and deep learning expertise with solid engineering craft—establishing CI/CD, TDD, ADRs, and on-call reliability to enable 20+ deployments per day and under 5% CFR. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript, Go, Swift/Kotlin and cloud-native tooling, he builds agentic AI systems and internal benchmarks that catch AI regressions on every PR. A hands-on mentor and hiring lead, he enjoys enabling teams to ship readable, well-tested, maintainable software while contributing across the full stack. Based in Karlsruhe, he pairs KIT graduate rigor with startup pragmatism and a knack for turning ML research into production-grade developer productivity features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English, Indonesian
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Github Skills (193)
twitch10
plotly-dash10
e2e-testing10
slack-bot10
python10
testing10
automation10
flask10
streaming10
web-testing10
javascript10
data-exploration10
webdriver10
streamlink10
chromium10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OctoMind-dev/vercel-actions-example
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Example repo to showcase integrating octomind with a vercel-deployed application
Contributions:359 reviews, 357 PRs, 342 pushes in 1 year 8 months
OctoMind-dev/automagically-azure-devops-task-execute
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Azure DevOps task to execute your automagically-maintained e2e-tests.
Contributions:3 releases, 369 reviews, 309 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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