Summary
Daniel Knippers is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in The Hague with 17 years of experience designing, building and operating enterprise business applications across client/server and cloud environments. He combines hands-on engineering in Java, .NET (C#), PL/SQL and high-throughput systems with product-focused architecture and operational ownership, including incident and support management. Daniel has led development organizations of 10+ people and steered workflow, OCR and machine translation initiatives that reduced manual intervention while increasing throughput. His background spans Windows, Unix and OpenStack platforms and deep experience with Oracle and SQL Server, making him comfortable across stack, infra and data persistence concerns. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic trade-offs between scalability, maintainability and time-to-market, and he often moves between coding and architecting to keep solutions grounded in reality. Unusually for a CTO, he has a sustained track record of shipping UI-first features from earlier career roles, preserving a user-centric view in enterprise product design.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
VormgevIng en ontwerp van interActie, VormgevIng en ontwerp van interActie at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
HAVO HAVO, HAVO HAVO at Vrije School
English, Dutch