Daniel Leivers
Lead Software Engineer at OTAKU DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Leivers is a lead software engineer and founder with over a decade of experience building mobile-first products across iOS, Android and React Native, now leading mobile engineering at Lloyds Banking Group. He combines deep native expertise (Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C) with practical AI/ML and LLM experience from recent roles using LangChain, ChatGPT and Python, bridging product-grade apps with intelligent backends. As founder of Otaku Development and long-time co-organiser of SWmobile, he’s a community-minded technologist who regularly speaks at industry conferences and helped launch the South West’s first dedicated mobile conference. His background spans embedded and research systems through to large enterprise apps, reflecting an ability to translate complex constraints—hardware integrations, AR/VR, and AI—into polished user experiences. Unusually for a mobile lead, he pairs hands-on implementation with a formal AI master’s and management certification, giving him both technical depth and leadership discipline.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at University of Bath2.1: BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Software Engineering with a Year in Industry, 2.1: BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Software Engineering with a Year in Industry at University of BirminghamCMI Level 5 Certificate in Management & Leadership, CMI Level 5 Certificate in Management & Leadership at Chartered Management Institute
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Github Skills (72)
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xcode10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Workshed/Spot
Nov 2016 - Sep 2020
Spot: A super simple library to help point out user interface issues
Contributions:4 releases, 38 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 10 months
user-interfacejavascriptspotpoint
Workshed/appstoreconnect-swift-sdk
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 5 months
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