Daniel Korgel
Manager Software Engineering at FARO INSIGHT
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Korgel is a seasoned software engineering manager and hands-on technologist with 11 years of experience building multi-platform applications across mobile, desktop, XR, web and backend systems. Currently leading R&D software engineering at FARO Insight, he blends day-to-day team leadership and Scrum mastery with active feature development and pragmatic technical decision-making. His background as a key developer at a growing VR/XR startup honed rapid problem synthesis and solution-oriented thinking that scale from prototypes to product. A true tinkerer off-hours, he brings practical hardware skills—CAD, PCB design, 3D printing and microcontroller programming—into his software work, evidenced by full-stack contributions to projects like an OctoPrint enclosure plugin. Based in Wuppertal, Germany, he pairs family-focused priorities with a curiosity-driven approach to shipping reliable, integrated systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund
English, German, French
Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
gpio10
raspberry-pi10
python10
jinja29
javascript9
css8
html8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vitormhenrique/OctoPrint-Enclosure
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
OctoPrint Enclosure Plugin
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel implemented features for displaying temperature and humidity data within the OctoPrint Enclosure plugin, enhancing the user interface with new graph functionalities. They fixed a bug in the configuration updater. The user also added an auto-shutdown feature triggered by errors or printer disconnections, integrating with the existing output controls. These changes involved modifications to the plugin's core Python code, template files, and JavaScript files, demonstrating front-end, back-end, and integration skills.
octoprinttemperature-sensorenclosureraspberry-pigpio
Dak0r/OctoPrint-Enclosure-with-Custom-Graphs
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
OctoPrint Enclosure Plugin
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 10 months
octoprint
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