Daniel Jilg
Founder at TelemetryDeck
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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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 (189)
python10
swift-nio10
http10
vapor10
storekit10
server-side-swift10
svg10
swiftui10
django10
charts10
barcodes10
pixelfed10
activitypub10
mastodon10
sdk10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
TelemetryDeck/SwiftDataTransferObjects
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Swift structs that are used both by the TelemetryDeck server and by the TelemetryDeck Viewer App
Contributions:23 releases, 1 review, 77 PRs in 3 years 2 months
analyticsstructsprivacyviewerswift
winsmith/n-body-problem
Sep 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:65 commits, 84 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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