Summary
Daniel Manzke is a technology executive and Head of Engineering in Berlin with over 15 years of hands-on experience and 20+ years in the broader tech industry, specializing in building B2B products that blend search, AI and cloud-native architectures. He has led cross-functional organizations—engineering, product, cloud and security—to launch major product versions and embed LLMs and vision models into enterprise search experiences using Java, Python, Spring, Docker, Terraform and Helm. As a former CTO/CTPO and startup founder/advisor, he combines turnaround and growth-stage playbooks—from doubling e-commerce revenue to scaling multi-country restaurant platforms processing millions of orders. He has deep domain experience in ConstructionTech, PropTech and FinTech, and a pragmatic focus on evaluating and hosting open models (Llama, Gemma, Qwen, vLLM) for B2B deployments. Notably, he pairs product strategy with low-level technical choices, ensuring teams ship secure, operable AI features that solve real business workflows.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Application Development Enterprise Development (Java Enterprise Edition), Computer Science Application Development Enterprise Development (Java Enterprise Edition) at FH OOW
English, German