Daniel Eder
Senior AI And Open Source Legal Advisor at Deutsche Telekom
Austria
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Top SchoolDaniel Eder is a Senior AI and Open Source Legal Advisor at Deutsche Telekom with 11 years of experience bridging software engineering and law, specialising in AI regulation, IP, and Open Source compliance. He translates EU AI Act requirements into concrete governance and compliance systems while advising on legal risks for large-scale products like the German Corona Warn App and EU Digital Covid Certificates. A former software engineer and founder, Daniel brings hands-on experience in medical AI, 3D medical visualisation, and game development to pragmatic legal-technical solutions. He has contributed code and fixes to notable open-source projects such as Wekan and maintained critical test suites for EU digital health certificate tooling, reflecting both development and QA chops. Currently completing doctoral research in law, he combines academic rigour with practical compliance automation that reduces product-team workload. Fluent in navigating public-sector and corporate ecosystems, he is a sought-after speaker on AI governance and legal tech innovation.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor's Degree, Law, Doctor's Degree, Law at Johannes Kepler Universität LinzEngineer's degree, Software Engineering, Engineer's degree, Software Engineering at HTL Krems
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
schema-validation10
meteor10
pytest10
kanban10
python10
test-automation10
json9
docker8
nodejs8
dockers8
mongodb7
mongodb-database7
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
eu-digital-green-certificates/dgc-testdata
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Repository for storing generated QR code data for testing.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:102 reviews, 38 commits, 166 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the project by updating and maintaining the test suite. This involved modifying existing test scripts and adjusting schema URLs used in the tests. The changes focused on ensuring the test data and validation procedures remained accurate, reflecting updates to external schemas and dependencies. These updates likely involved ensuring the test suite's continued effectiveness in validating the digital health certificates.
qr-codetesting
wekan/wekan
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
The Open Source kanban, built with Meteor. GitHub issues/PRs are only for FLOSS Developers, not for support, support is at https://wekan.fi/commercial-support/ . PR source translation to imports/i18n/data/en.i18n.json, other translations at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel made several contributions to the Wekan project, focusing on improvements related to cloning and importing boards. They implemented features such as adding filter options for assignees, fixing issues related to missing custom fields, member assignments, assignee assignments, and subtasks during the cloning and importing process. These changes involved modifications to the frontend (sidebar filters) and backend (models/wekanCreator.js, models/import.js) of the application, ensuring a more complete and functional board import experience. They also fixed an attachment issue.
meteorkanbanwekandocker-imagesandstorm
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