Daniel Jilg
Founder at TelemetryDeck
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolDaniel Jilg is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years’ experience building privacy-first analytics, high-performance backends, and polished iOS apps. Based in Hamburg, he combines hands-on Swift and Python/Django development with team leadership—having led engineering orgs, shipped large-scale syncing services, and broken up monolithic repos into maintainable systems. He founded TelemetryDeck to deliver anonymized telemetry for product teams, reflecting a long-standing focus on privacy, open source, and developer communities. Daniel has a track record of shipping production-grade mobile and server features (from offline-capable iOS apps to sub-100ms device sync across hundreds of thousands of endpoints) and elevating engineering processes through CI, Git workflows, and clear documentation. Known for mentoring and community-building, he also speaks at conferences and contributes to open-source projects, bringing a pragmatic blend of product sensibility and engineering depth.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at University of Augsburg
English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (166)
json-data10
python10
testing10
http10
apache-druid10
vapor10
server-side-swift10
swiftui10
mod-manager10
feature-toggle10
django10
barcodes10
pixelfed10
feature-flags10
activitypub10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
TelemetryDeck/AppleModelNames
Nov 2023 - Mar 2026
A mapping of Apple model names to readable names
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 3 months
TelemetryDeck/SwiftSDK
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Swift SDK for TelemetryDeck, a privacy-conscious analytics service for apps and websites.
Contributions:30 releases, 35 reviews, 112 commits in 2 years 3 months
swiftanalyticsprivacy-protectiontelemetryios
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