Daniel Paulus
SVP Product Engineering at Checkly
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Paulus is an experienced software engineering leader with 10+ years of building high-velocity, reliable developer products and teams, currently serving as SVP Product Engineering at Checkly in Berlin. He has scaled engineering orgs from small teams to high-performing units (4→16) delivering ~20 deploys/day and led SOC 2 and data-lake initiatives to turn operational data into product and sales insights. Technically hands-on earlier in his career, he reverse-engineered Apple private APIs to run iOS devices on Linux and contributes to go-ios, an OS-independent implementation for automating iOS device features. Daniel blends product-facing leadership with deep systems and DevOps experience, having driven velocity improvements of 70% at Mesmer and introduced robust CI/CD, testing, and on-call practices across teams. He pairs formal training in computer science and philosophy with a pragmatic taste for solving tricky technical problems and building agentic AI systems for developer operations. Colleagues describe him as a builder who coaches first-time leaders and prioritizes diversity and retention while shipping at scale.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Bundeswehr University MunichMaster, Philosophie, Master, Philosophie at FernUniversität in Hagen
German, English, French
Github Skills (11)
golang10
ios10
go10
debug9
debugging9
xcuitest8
testing8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
danielpaulus/go-ios
May 2019 - Nov 2022
This is an operating system independent implementation of iOS device features. You can run UI tests, launch or kill apps, install apps etc. with it.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:183 reviews, 105 commits, 301 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the `go-ios` repository by adding features and fixing bugs within the iOS device feature implementation. Their work includes removing logging, adding date functionality, and implementing a diagnostics relay. Additionally, they added a new version of go-ios with significant refactoring, including proxy groundwork, and fixed several issues. These commits indicate the user's focus on the underlying implementation details and functionality of the project.
golangios-deviceoperating-systemappium-iosindependent
danielpaulus/dtx_codec
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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