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Top SchoolDaniel Jones is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building APIs and client libraries, currently shaping DeepL's API platform from the Greater Hamburg Area. He progressed from hands-on client library engineering to leading the API & client libraries engineering team before returning to a senior engineering role, demonstrating both technical depth and people-focused leadership. His background in mechatronics from the University of Auckland and early roles in automotive sensing at Ibeo give him a systems-oriented approach to software design and reliability. Comfortable across backend APIs, client SDKs and cross-team coordination, he favors pragmatic, production-first solutions that scale. Notably, his career blends low-level embedded/algorithmic experience with modern API-driven product work, making him effective at bridging hardware-informed thinking and cloud-native engineering.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
ME Mechatronics Engineering, ME Mechatronics Engineering at University of Auckland
English, german (b2)