Daniel Ruthardt
Founder at Future of Skills Initiative GmbH
Klagenfurt-Villach Area Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Ruthardt is a founder and technology leader based in the Klagenfurt-Villach area with over two decades of experience building education and certification systems for engineers. He has founded multiple companies (Dionix, dowee, Future of Skills Initiative) and served as a Certification Program Architect and senior engineer at The Linux Foundation, specializing in performance-based assessments. His background blends hands-on software engineering, system administration, and long-standing instructional roles at WIFI, giving him rare depth in both operational systems and educator-facing product design. Daniel’s work focuses on making technical competence measurable and portable, translating classroom and enterprise needs into scalable certification programs. He combines entrepreneurial drive with a steady record of building organizations and technical programs from the ground up. Fluent in open-source practices and applied computer science, he often operates at the intersection of training, assessment, and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Applied Computer Science at Alpen-Adria-University KlagenfurtHigh School, Natural Sciences, High School, Natural Sciences at Europagymnasium Klagenfurt
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (53)
orientdb10
graph-store10
graph-database9
nosql9
sql9
document-database9
fabric9
database9
dbms8
hyperledger-fabric8
graph8
linux8
geospatial8
austria8
circleci7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LF-Certification/bashp
Mar 2024 - Nov 2025
Enhanced Bash scripting with modular package support
Contributions:4 releases, 10 reviews, 34 PRs in 1 year 7 months
cert-catalogued
zoesolutions/helma
Jul 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 47 pushes, 23 branches in 4 years 5 months
helmframeworkkubernetesweb-frameworkhelma
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